[swift-evolution] Proposal and Timeline for Discourse Transition

[John McCall]

> On Dec 12, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Alejandro Martinez <alexito4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

I think this would be best as a tag within the Using Swift category.

John.

> Cheers
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:44 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 12, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Alejandro Martinez via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Kelvin Ma <kelvin13ma at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Alejandro Martinez via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> i always thought Using Swift was going to be more for beginner questions and
>> helping newcomers
>> 
>> 
>> 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 ;)
>> 
>> 
>> 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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