> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't like mailing lists in particular (or, really, at all), but I haven't 
> yet seen a good answer to the question: who is going to put in the long-term 
> commitment to host and maintain a replacement solution, moderate forums, make 
> technical upgrades and backups, and perform all the other maintenance and 
> administrative work it takes to properly run a system like Discourse, a web 
> forum, or even a bug tracker. I suspect that any such solution is going to 
> require an additional commitment since 1). we will no longer be able to 
> leverage shared mailing-list infrastructure that is run by people outside the 
> Swift team, 2). it's pretty much a given IMO that any solution which 
> encourages richer and easier interaction is going to require additional 
> community curation.

Are we really arguing that Apple, the most valuable corporation in the world, 
does not have the resources to host a web forum?

Charles

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