[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

Derrick Ho wh1pch81n at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 19:35:05 CST 2017


Does Discourse allow stuff to be "plus-one-ed"? I like how Reddit has this
feature and I notice that many people on this mailing list either -1 or +1
something.

I feel like it is very democratic.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:52 AM Rudolf Adamkovič via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> +1 for either e-mail or GitHub issues. No need for yet another tool...
>
> R+
>
> On 28 Jan 2017, at 01:21, Karl Wagner via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On 27 Jan 2017, at 02:10, Derrick Ho via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> I'm surprised there is so little support for JIRA. Anyone think it's a bad
> tool for the job?
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:38 PM Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via
> swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> I haven't yet seen a good answer to the question: who is going to put in
> the long-term commitment to host and maintain a replacement solution,
> moderate forums, make technical upgrades and backups, and perform all the
> other maintenance and administrative work it takes to properly run a system
> like Discourse, a web forum, or even a bug tracker.
>
>
> I will volunteer to be a moderator of the Swift forums. I have time
> available, and the core team surely has better things to do.
>
> Nevin
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> Personally, I’d prefer if we used GitHub Issues. I like keeping the
> current state of the project together with the known issues in it. It also
> has better formatting and actually supports some kind of syntax
> highlighting for Swift code.
>
> I just assumed that some of our requirements (e.g. syncing with Apple’s
> internal “radar” system) disqualified it.
>
> The reason why we don’t have topics every month about migrating our
> bug-tracking system is that JIRA (while perhaps not optimal) is at least
> passable. That’s more than you can say for the mailing lists, most of the
> time.
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> - Karl
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