[swift-evolution] Official Swift Slack team?

[Jay Abbott]

+1 for Discourse

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 at 17:01 Karl Wagner via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> When it comes to infrastructure/dev-ops, Apple probably have people
> responsible for it (like Shah Mischal does the CI server); I think Chris
> mentioned in the last discussion on this topic that they do.
>
> It would be worth getting in touch with those people and finding out which
> issues are blocking a switch to a platform such as Discourse.
>
> For one thing, there's a huge collection of great, in-depth information on
> these lists; the kind of behind-the-scenes technical details that devs love
> to read up on (the kind of stuff you'd find on Mike Ash's blog). It's a bit
> difficult to find and discover these things, though.
>
> Sticky posts would also be great: maybe could have a friendly reminder on
> swift-evo that we're only taking ABI-breaking proposals right now, or split
> the "pitch" threads in to a separate sub forum, or keep commonly-rejected
> proposal threads around so people can read *why* they were rejected.
>
> There are loads of opportunities to improve the community experience, IMO.
> So I definitely support a move to something richer than a mailing-list, but
> from previous discussions it sounds like Discourse (rather than Slack) will
> give us lots of these benefits with least upheaval.
>
> - Karl
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2016 at 8:26 pm, <Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>
> Hello dear Swift community,
>
> I’d like to pitch the idea of introducing an official Slack team?
>
> Never heard of Slack before: https://slack.com
>
> I know we might have a forum in the future + we already have swift-users,
> but there are might be other talks you have on your mind around Swift. For
> example you could share some ideas, searching for help for your project, or
> just chat with your favorites language community.
>
> That will keep the evolution process nice and clean. :)
>
> What do you think?
>
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