[swift-evolution] Proposal and Timeline for Discourse Transition

[Alejandro Martinez]

Yes that's what I was suggesting.
My view is that different kind of conversations would happen in a
"help" vs. "announcements" category. Some people may be interested in
being up to date with the more experienced users, announcements of new
projects or putting together efforts towards a lib or even meetups or
other IRL stuff; but don't want to spent time reading trough a more
"stack overflowy" kind of posts.
But I don't really have a strong view on this, I just wanted to
clarify it as, for example, Rust forums do this differentiation and I
figured it was worth raising it now :P
Cheers

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:44 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 12, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Alejandro Martinez via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Kelvin Ma <kelvin13ma at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Alejandro Martinez via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> This sounds great!
> Specially the new structure, it reminds me of the Rust forums. I just
> have one question, is the Using Swift category expected to be the one
> where the community posts project announcements for new libraries or
> similar stuff? I remember a recent thread where some people wanted to
> include more libs in the standard swift distribution and one of the
> alternatives considered was making it easy for the community to get
> together and share new projects and even join forces. This would seem
> like the perfect place for it, similar to the announcements category
> on Rust forum.
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> i always thought Using Swift was going to be more for beginner questions and
> helping newcomers
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> That's what it looks like, which is completely fine. But if that's the
> case I think we should have another category for that kind of stuff ;)
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> I think it's open to both, just as swift-users is today.  The topic name
> needs to
> encourage beginner questions because otherwise the beginners won't know
> where
> to go; experienced forum users presumably don't need that kind of direction.
>
> Are you suggesting that these ought to be split into separate categories?  I
> don't think
> I'd support that.
>
> John.



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