[swift-evolution] [Swift4] Mailing list vs. Forum

[Paulo Faria]

+1 for Forum and Slack. Slack is good for informal discussion and early ideas. This could make the forum more focused because only ideas that passed the early phase of discussion would end up on the forum. If one doesn’t have time to hang out on the chat that’s not a problem. The forum would be the place for those. Forum is much better than email. Discourse seems pretty nice.

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Brad Hilton via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> +1. I would love to see Swift Evolution on Slack or a forum, it would be so much easier to manage.
> 
> Brad
> 
>> Branching...
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution<swift-evolution at swift.org(mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org)>wrote:
>>> On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Brandon Knope<bknope at me.com(mailto:bknope at me.com)>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Chris, has the core team discussed opening up a forum for discussing proposal implementations.
>>>> 
>>>> Some of us aren't as skilled as the core team or other contributors but would like to learn. A forum is a much easier place for us to post for code help and to help others with their questions. I think this could help get more involved as it would be a more comfortable format for them. Think of how there are Apple Developer forums and not mailing lists for iOS betas etc.
>>>> 
>>>> I am not saying moving swift-evo to forums *yet* but I believe a lot of the newer programmers are more comfortable with a forum format, especially when it comes to help and discussing code.
>>>> 
>>>> Forums for contributors would:
>>>> - be more familiar for a lot of the newer and not as experienced developers
>>>> - be easier to search
>>>> - be easier to moderate (not really a problem yet)
>>> 
>>> Hi Brandon,
>>> 
>>> Moving from email to a forum system has come up before, but they have some disadvantages.One of major wins of email is that it is pervasive and can be adapted into other forms.For example, if you haven’t seen it yet, check out:
>>> https://stylemac.com/hirundo/
>>> 
>>> -Chris
>>> 
>> We've discussed forums on swift-evolution before. Maybe it's time for another go, with Swift 3 winding down.
>> 
>> For context, prior discussions are on this thread:https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001537.html
>> 
>> (-1 for mailman: it's hard for me to even properly find&link to all the prior discussion about mailing lists, because of how mailman's archive works...)
>> 
>> 
>> News in the last few days is that Gmane is at least temporarily disappearing:https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13502
>> 
>> 
>> I'd just like to vote once again forDiscourse(http://www.discourse.org/faq/#what):-Excellent web interface(https://meta.discourse.org/), from the people who brought you Stack Overflow(built-in search, etc.)
>> - Read via email if that's your thing: it has "mailing list mode" which includes 1-email-per-post, if that's your cup of tea
>> -Reply via email(https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-mailing-lists-email-in/13099)if that's your thing
>> - It'sopen source(https://github.com/discourse/discourse)itself
>> - I believe it has ways of getting content as JSON and/or RSS, so I'd hardly say "can be adapted into other forms" is an exclusive feature of email.
>> 
>> And, Discourse providesfree hosting for community-friendly open-source projects(http://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/). Istrongly suspect(https://twitter.com/jtbandes/status/705886542309363712)Swift would qualify for this.
>> 
>> 
>> There have been several people on this list arguing in favor of mailing lists — I encourage folks to go read the old thread for themselves.
>> 
>> It's worth noting there are also plenty of voices that don't get heard on this list, because people just don't like using mailing lists. One example:https://twitter.com/pilky/status/755105431555608580_______________________________________________
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