[swift-evolution] RFC: structuring forums for best use for swift-evolution

[Xiaodi Wu]

For Swift 4, the core team identified a set of priorities. Provided the
same will be done for Swift 5, these are natural categories for the
evolution part of the forum, to my mind. It should have the positive effect
of encouraging discussion to be focused, and would allow even new
participants to see in what ways they can contribute.
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 03:46 David Hart via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> On 2 Aug 2017, at 09:44, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the update!
>
> -  We currently have swift-evolution and swift-evolution-announce.  Should
> we use a specific “category” in the forum for "proposals that are in active
> review" — and possibly remove the need to have something like
> swift-evolution-announce?
>
> Guess swift-evolution-announce is the right place to ask this question…
> but I don't know where the answers should go ;-)
>
>
> Whatever we do concerning swift-evolution-announce, I think it would be
> worth pinning the review threads to the top of swift-evolution during the
> review period.
>
> Just to help frame the rest of the discussion on this thread, the
> intention is to move all of the lists to Discourse.
>
> All lists, and a single instance of Discourse?
> I don't remember if there was a discussion about Discourse in swift-dev…
> imho that list doesn't suffer from the problems that evolution has.
> Also, it will be very easy to cross-post from users to evolution (without
> switching from Mailclient to browser and search for a post in the
> archives), so imho a strong separation has no downsides.
>
>
> I think swift-users, swift-evolution and swift-evolution-announce would
> all benefit a lot from Discourse because they are high volume and is more
> approchable for newcomers. I don’t have a strong opinion about the -dev
> lists, but its true it would be simpler if everything was on the same
> platform.
>
> - Should we have other topical areas to organize discussions?  If so, at
> what granularity?
>
> There are some topics (multithreading, metaprogramming, reflection,
> generics, ownership…) that imho couldn't be pushed forward on the mailing
> list because of their size.
> I hope Discourse will help to manage concepts that don't fit in a single
> proposal (there's a wiki posts feature that sounds promising) and allows
> talking about features that can't be implemented soon, but might be
> affected by short-term changes.
> There are already some manifestos written, so I guess there might be Core
> members with special interest in certain topics who could act as patron for
> "their" subject.
>
>
> I think it would be very beneficial to organise discussions by topics.
> That would allow pinning the relevant manifestos at the top for everyone to
> keep in mind :)
>
> I'm quite sure that moving to a forum will increase the number of posts
> dramatically — but it also offers help to manage higher throughput:
> - We could have one or more focus-topics for each release ("X is up next,
> other topics won't receive much attention from Core")
> - With likes, there's an easy way to signal agreement to an opinion
> without flooding the ML. This could help Core to to find relevant input.
>
> Looking forward to login ;-)
> - Tino
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