[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

[Joshua Alvarado]

Helps confirm the need of this change even more. Seems moving over is
something many would like and it won't causing any source-breaking changes
:)

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch <jtbandes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 / 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
>> Sent with Airmail
>>
>> 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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