For a tiny but massively important part of Apple on which they’re essentially betting the entire future of the company? Yeah, I think the world’s richest Fortune 500 company can afford to allocate the resources for a web forum.
Charles > On Jan 26, 2017, at 1:30 PM, Austin Zheng <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apple having billions of dollars, and the Swift team as a tiny part of Apple > with associated resource allocations, are two completely different things. > Please don't be obtuse. > > Best, > Austin > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Charles Srstka <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution >> <[email protected] <mailto:[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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