[swift-evolution] update on forum

[Alejandro Martinez]

Thanks for the clarification on that Ted :)
Are all the mailing list gonna move there or only swift-evo?

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Ted Kremenek via swift-evolution
<swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> The decision to move to a forum was announced a while ago, and it hasn’t
> appeared yet.  I think we will be making the move soon and I wanted to
> provide some reasons why it was delayed and what comes next.
>
> The reasons it was delayed are twofold:
>
> -  When we (the community) decided to move to a forum there was plenty of
> other planned infrastructure work that was in the works that took immediate
> priority (such as the source compatibility suite and supporting Swift 4
> development).
>
> - In August (when Swift 4 was wrapping up) my team at Apple seriously picked
> up the topic of the forum again and started looking in how to make it
> happen.  At that point, a bunch of unexpected delays, one after the other,
> happened.  I can’t share these details (they are mostly non-technical) and
> going through them would come off as me making a bunch of excuses anyway.  I
> do realize the forum has been promised and not yet delivered for some time,
> and I know how frustrating that is to the community.
>
> Here’s what happens next:
>
> - We plan on having the company behind Discourse.org host the forums.  We’re
> wrapping up the remaining steps to issue a PO, but my hope is to get that
> all done within the next couple weeks.  Thanksgiving in the USA may delay
> that to the beginning of December.
>
> - My understanding is the forum will still have a swift.org address, so the
> hosting is just an implementation detail.
>
> - The company hosting Discourse.org will migrate the existing mailing list
> archives over to the new forum.  One thing we will need to figure out
> (possibly as a community?) are specific requirements we have in place for
> that migration.  The new forums don’t have to exactly mirror how the mailing
> lists are structured today, and part of the reason to move to the forum was
> motivated by having new opportunities to structure conversations.
>
> I suspect there will be some trial and error with moving over the existing
> mailing lists to the new forum, and I don’t have a good feel on how long
> that will take.  However, once we reach that stage, it should be very
> transparent to the community what exactly is going on.  My hope is that
> process will start in December.
>
> Ted
>
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