<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A while back a decision was reached to move from using mailing lists for swift-evolution to using a forum, specifically Discourse. At the time that decision was made, efforts had been already well committed for supporting the development of Swift 4 — including efforts supporting important infrastructure efforts such as the source compatibility suite. I apologize for not providing more transparency in why moving to a forum was being delayed. Some things took longer than expected.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To be clear, the plan is to still move to Discourse, and with Swift 4 winding down there is now bandwidth to focus on making the transition from mailing lists to a forum. <b class="">As part of that transition, I’d like to get some feedback from the community</b>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There has been some good conversations on this mailing list on how swift-evolution can possibly evolve to better serve the needs of the community. I’m not talking about whether or not we use a mailing list or a forum — that decision has been made. Specifically, I’m talking about how a forum could best be structured to organize discussions and allow everyone to optimally participate. In the move to Discourse, we have the opportunity here to possibly do things a bit differently than we have been so far.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example, here are some of the questions I’m thinking about how we should be use a forum:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- We currently have swift-evolution and swift-evolution-announce. Should we use a specific “category” in the forum for "proposals that are in active review" — and possibly remove the need to have something like swift-evolution-announce? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Should we have other topical areas to organize discussions? If so, at what granularity?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We can certainly figure out a lot of this over time, but I’d like some feedback from the community now on things they’d like to see in how we organize the swift-evolution forum based on experiences we’ve had with swift-evolution since it was created.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please chime in on this thread if you have feedback, and focus on keeping this constructive.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Ted</div></body></html>