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 <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: > On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> 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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