+1. I would love to see Swift Evolution on Slack or a forum, it would be so much easier to manage.
Brad > Branching... > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Chris Lattner via > swift-evolution<swift-evolution@swift.org(mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org)>wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Brandon > > Knope<bkn...@me.com(mailto:bkn...@me.com)>wrote: > > > > > >Chris, has the core team discussed opening up a forum for discussing > > >proposal implementations. > > > > > >Some of us aren't as skilled as the core team or other contributors but > > >would like to learn. A forum is a much easier place for us to post for > > >code help and to help others with their questions. I think this could help > > >get more involved as it would be a more comfortable format for them. Think > > >of how there are Apple Developer forums and not mailing lists for iOS > > >betas etc. > > > > > >I am not saying moving swift-evo to forums *yet* but I believe a lot of > > >the newer programmers are more comfortable with a forum format, especially > > >when it comes to help and discussing code. > > > > > >Forums for contributors would: > > >- be more familiar for a lot of the newer and not as experienced developers > > >- be easier to search > > >- be easier to moderate (not really a problem yet) > > > > Hi Brandon, > > > > Moving from email to a forum system has come up before, but they have some > > disadvantages.One of major wins of email is that it is pervasive and can be > > adapted into other forms.For example, if you haven’t seen it yet, check out: > > https://stylemac.com/hirundo/ > > > > -Chris > > > We've discussed forums on swift-evolution before. Maybe it's time for another > go, with Swift 3 winding down. > > For context, prior discussions are on this > thread:https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001537.html > > (-1 for mailman: it's hard for me to even properly find&link to all the prior > discussion about mailing lists, because of how mailman's archive works...) > > > News in the last few days is that Gmane is at least temporarily > disappearing:https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13502 > > > I'd just like to vote once again > forDiscourse(http://www.discourse.org/faq/#what):-Excellent web > interface(https://meta.discourse.org/), from the people who brought you Stack > Overflow(built-in search, etc.) > - Read via email if that's your thing: it has "mailing list mode" which > includes 1-email-per-post, if that's your cup of tea > -Reply via > email(https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-mailing-lists-email-in/13099)if > that's your thing > - It'sopen source(https://github.com/discourse/discourse)itself > - I believe it has ways of getting content as JSON and/or RSS, so I'd hardly > say "can be adapted into other forms" is an exclusive feature of email. > > And, Discourse providesfree hosting for community-friendly open-source > projects(http://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/). > Istrongly > suspect(https://twitter.com/jtbandes/status/705886542309363712)Swift would > qualify for this. > > > There have been several people on this list arguing in favor of mailing lists > — I encourage folks to go read the old thread for themselves. > > It's worth noting there are also plenty of voices that don't get heard on > this list, because people just don't like using mailing lists. One > example:https://twitter.com/pilky/status/755105431555608580_______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
