[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

Obligatory prior discussion sheds, er, I mean threads:

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001537.html
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160725/025692.html
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https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160801/thread.html#25765


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Joshua Alvarado via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> It will be painted! ;)
>
> So far we have:
> +2 Disclosure
> +1 Slack
> +1 Issue tracker
>
> Let's really get everyone's opinions and see if we can get this rock
> rolling towards a better solution. Of course it will be Apple's choice in
> the end but we can give a voice on the matter to show we do care about
> moving over.
>
> Alvarado, Joshua
>
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 10:55 AM, David Waite <david at alkaline-solutions.com>
> wrote:
>
> As long as we are pretending this bike shed is getting painted again…
>
> I would actually prefer something closer to an issue tracker than
> discourse. We get a lot of repeat and diverging topics, and it would be
> nice to mark discussions as related, duplicates, etc
>
> -DW
>
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 9:22 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> +1 for Discourse <http://www.discourse.org/>. Cannot wait any longer for
> this to happen.
>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Zubarev
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>
> Am 23. Januar 2017 um 17:18:42, Joshua Alvarado via swift-evolution (
> swift-evolution at swift.org) schrieb:
>
> Hey swifters,
>   I would like to (re)open up discussion on moving away from email for the
> swift evolution mailing list. I know this has probably been discussed
> before but it really should be addressed again. I wouldn't even know how to
> find if it has been discussed before because it would be too hard to go
> back through the history.
>
> The main factors to move away from email is because email may deter
> newcomers, history, and threads. I may be speaking for myself when saying
> email may intimidate newcomers from expressing their opinions and thoughts.
> It is hard to know what has already been discussed and who is even in the
> active conversation. Keeping track of history is a pain as well. Searching
> through many emails to find who said what and when is not effective in
> email clients. Also, code formatting in emails is not effective. Let's
> discuss and actually make an action to move away from email if the
> community so agrees. Of course, recommendations are Slack, Hipchat (-1),
> and Gitter.
>
> --
> Joshua Alvarado
> alvaradojoshua0 at gmail.com
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