[swift-users] Plan to move swift-evolution and swift-users mailing lists to Discourse

[Karl Wagner]

Happy dance! 🎉🕺🎉    
  
  
  

  
I've said before that I think this a good move. Hopefully it encourages more ad-hoc contributions - e.g. Unicode experts who have suggestions for the String model, Perl developers with suggestions for pattern-matching, systems architects with suggestions for the memory model, etc. That's what open-source is all about, IMO. Maybe somebody they know notices the discussion - with this they'll have a convenient interface to get up to speed, follow the discussion and chime in with their experience. I don't know if that will _actually_ happen or how many such developers there are, but   by lowering the barrier to participation   we're doing as much as we can do to encourage them.
  
  
  
 So yeah, thanks a lot!
  
  
  
 - Karl
  
  
  

  
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> On Feb 9, 2017 at 12:03 am,  <Ted kremenek via swift-users (mailto:swift-users at swift.org)>  wrote:
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>  Hi everyone,
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> There was a long thread on swift-evolution about whether we should use modern forum software — like Discourse — as an alternative to the mailing lists we have now. After a long discussion, the Core Team has decided to move swift-evolution and swift-users to Discourse.
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> There are tradeoffs to moving to a forum. The main advantages are:
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> - Easy for people to participate without subscribing to the entire mailing list, as well as no need to provide email address to participate. A lot of people have voiced concern that they feel resistance to participate because of needing to subscribe to a mailing list.
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> - Consistent affordances and rendering of content, including Markdown support. This is really useful for having technical discussions.
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> - Better searching of topics, archiving, etc.
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> - More tools for moderation.
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> - Topic cross-referencing, and consistent organization of topics instead of whatever threading support a mail client provides (which is inconsistent).
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> I also want to consider moving the -dev lists to the same forum setup as well; but that will be a separate conversation on those lists.
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> A rollout plan has not been figured out. People are busy and there are logistics to figure out. I will be engaging a handful of members from the community to help with the transition. Specifically, there are those who really value using email for participation on swift-evolution and swift-users, and the goal is to get the forum setup to allow those people to continue to feel effective when using email for discussions on these "lists".
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> More details will be announced as they get figured out, but I felt it was important to let the community know about this direction.
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> Ted
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