<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">+1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think this is a great idea! The use of a mailing list is manageable for a small (2-10) groups but doesn’t scale to the size and frequency of comments/replies that the Swift Open Source project has seen thus far. Not to mention, it reeks of 1996.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure if we should authenticate users via AppleID, because we want the Swift community to remain cross-platform going forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A Slack would be a great idea, for banter but may get crazy. We would want the slack channels to remain <i class="">subject pure </i>(i.e., no shenanigans). Email is good in this regard in that a reply is expensive and therefore on-topic, whereas slack replies are cheap and therefore easily off topic. <u class="">Anyone have any idea to combat that?</u> Code of Conduct?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think in making this decision we should separate the determination that the mailing lists are posing too great a burden at our scale from the selection of what we should use in its stead.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Sean</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
> I think this thread should focus on the mailing list vs forum, Slack is<br class="">> not a forum. It could be nice to have it as an extra if we need it.<br class="">> <br class="">> It looks to me that all benefits of a mailing list can be achieved by a<br class="">> forum system with excellent support to read and reply using emails. But<br class="">> the opposite is not true, one single simple example: we can't even link<br class="">> related thread using email (as Tino mentioned on the Gmane thread).<br class="">> <br class="">> <br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
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