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

[David Sweeris]

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> On Feb 19, 2017, at 13:41, Lane Schwartz via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sure there are good reasons for this switch. Personally, I strongly prefer email lists to forums. 
> 
> This move will make it harder for me to participate in future discussions and I will be less inclined to take the effort to sign into a forum do so.
> 
> Is there a plan to enable an integrated mailing list functionality so that those of us who prefer that modality can continue to participate via email? Other forum software that I've been asked to use in the past (sorry, I can't remember the name) had this functionality, and it made a huge difference for me.

AFAIK, the plan is to not switch unless the mailing list functionality can be kept.

(I'm not an official source or anything, that's just the impression I got)

- Dave Sweeris