> On Jun 13, 2017, at 12:34 AM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jun 13, 2017, at 3:22 AM, David Sweeris <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 12:18 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 1:08 AM, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution >>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Paul Cantrell via swift-evolution >>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> I support everything Jon wrote. >>>> >>>> +1 Free-for-all brainstorming venue separate from focused proposal >>>> discussion. >>>> >>>> +1, particularly for this being a section in Discourse ;-) >>> >>> You posted this with a wink, but I think it's actually quite important. I >>> see some value in having a "sounding board" area where people can talk >>> through ideas that maybe aren't anywhere close to proposal yet >> >> FWIW, I’ve had a few off-list discussions of that nature and found them to >> be incredibly valuable. > > I'm certainly not trying to discourage anyone from having off-list > discussions. Have a conversation whenever and wherever it strikes you. But > I do think it would be really unfortunate to try to set somewhere else up as > a permanent alternative venue.
Oh! I was unclear… The discussions themselves were what’s valuable. The only reason they were off-list was to avoid spamming the list with premature ideas. Given the choice, I’d prefer to have them in an official “off-topic”/“sounding board”/whatever area. - Dave Sweeris
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