> On Feb 2, 2017, at 5:35 PM, Karl Wagner via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's at least worth a beta test.
There are real concerns to work out here — just moving to the forum blindly
would be bad if it is highly disruptive to the community having important
discussions. I DO think a forum is likely the way to go, but I also am not
dismissive that individuals who are highly active on swift-evolution that
prefer an email workflow will not have their own participation significantly
compromised by just moving to a forum in a cavalier way.
What I have enjoyed seeing from this thread is a healthy discussion about
tradeoffs of both approaches and an identification of concerns of moving away
from the mailing lists. Some responses to those concerns have been "Discourse
can handle that", which to me is part of the evaluation of the tradeoffs. I am
also really happy that Nate setup the mock Discourse setup so we could evaluate
thing like the email bridge. For example, experimenting of whether or not a
rich HTML email works versus plain text emails for inline responses (which
turns out to have problems), etc. That's all super useful for actually
evaluating moving to Discourse, so in my mind we are actually trying things out
and identifying problem points.
The other thing I'm considering is the practical logistics of getting this set
up and maintained (from an infrastructure perspective). That's not something
that needs to be discussed on this thread — I'd rather the thread focus on
whether a forum is the right thing for the community. But it is still
something that is being considered in tandem to this discussion, which
obviously needs to be figured out before we just jump to using Discourse (if
that is what we end up doing).
Ted
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