[swift-corelibs-dev] Informal Chat Medium

[Alex Blewitt]

> On 2 Aug 2017, at 20:34, David Hart via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Corelibs dev,

Hi David, welcome!

> A few months back, I wanted to start contributing more seriously to Swift Open Source. I ended up helping out on the Swift Package Manager project and had a very positive experience. It’s not easy to jump into a big project and it would not have been such a success for me without their official Slack channel where I was grateful to often find a helping hand when I had doubts, questions, or wanted to discuss and understand the process or direction of the project. That medium really helped me to ask the kind of questions I was afraid to ask on the mailing-list, which feels like a more formal medium.
> 
> Now that I’m looking into what I can do on corelibs-foundation, I really wish an equivalent channel existed. Is this an idea the corelibs team would be interested in entertaining?

Yes, and indeed something that's been discussed for a while now is the possibility of moving the mailing lists to a forum:

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170731/038452.html

Although Ted initially started the discussion with 'for swift-evolution' he later clarified he thought all should move:

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170731/038454.html

While it's not a Slack channel, I wonder if this would suit your needs if it were to happen?

Alex