[swift-evolution] Proposal and Timeline for Discourse Transition

[Nicole Jacque]

We’ve tried to avoid having too many categories, and the hope is that something like this can be accomplished by using tags.  That said, if we find that that does not work well, or that we get enough of these sort of topics, we can easily create a new category for them.

> On Dec 12, 2017, at 12:33 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> 
>> 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:
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>>> 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:
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alejandro Martinez
>> http://alejandromp.com
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