[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

[thislooksfun]

(Sending this again because the first was accidentally offlist. Stupid reply-to headers.)

+1 for Discourse from me as well.

As for making a Swift-based site, server libraries do exist (Perfect, Vapor, Kitura, etc.), but afaik there is currently no built-in server support yet.

-thislooksfun (tlf)

> On Jan 23, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Ethin Probst via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> We will, but we can't do any rewriting of anything until Swifts server
> library is up and running, which I believe it is not (feel free to
> correct me if I am wrong).
> I'll go a little further and give a +4 for discourse. Or anything
> else. My email is filled with a total of 13808 e-mails. 141 of those
> are from the swift-evolution mailing list and 52 of those are from the
> swift-users one, for a total of 193 e-mails. Do you think I'm willing
> to browse all of those to determine what's going on? Hell no! A forum
> would allow us to get the most germane and contemporary dialogue for
> all the members. Why not just forumize all of the mailing lists, and
> not just this one? Make it use only one instance of the forum software
> and make separate categories--or forums, even--for each list so that
> it's all rationalized. It would save people a lot of headaches trying
> to remember URLs.
> 
> On 1/23/17, David Sweeris via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 23, 2017, at 09:59, 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.
>> 
>> I'd even be happy with phpBB. I wonder if there's an issue tracker plugin
>> yet?
>> 
>> Whatever we use, we'll have to rewrite it in Swift, though, since this is
>> supposed to be a language for server apps.
>> 
>> - Dave Sweeris
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