Happy dance! ππΊπ I've said before that I think this a good move. Hopefully it encourages more ad-hoc contributions - e.g. Unicode experts who have suggestions for the String model, Perl developers with suggestions for pattern-matching, systems architects with suggestions for the memory model, etc. That's what open-source is all about, IMO. Maybe somebody they know notices the discussion - with this they'll have a convenient interface to get up to speed, follow the discussion and chime in with their experience. I don't know if that will _actually_ happen or how many such developers there are, but by lowering the barrier to participation we're doing as much as we can do to encourage them. So yeah, thanks a lot! - Karl
> > On Feb 9, 2017 at 12:03 am, <Ted kremenek via swift-users > (mailto:swift-us...@swift.org)> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > There was a long thread on swift-evolution about whether we should use modern > forum software β like Discourse β as an alternative to the mailing lists we > have now. After a long discussion, the Core Team has decided to move > swift-evolution and swift-users to Discourse. > > There are tradeoffs to moving to a forum. The main advantages are: > > - Easy for people to participate without subscribing to the entire mailing > list, as well as no need to provide email address to participate. A lot of > people have voiced concern that they feel resistance to participate because > of needing to subscribe to a mailing list. > > - Consistent affordances and rendering of content, including Markdown > support. This is really useful for having technical discussions. > > - Better searching of topics, archiving, etc. > > - More tools for moderation. > > - Topic cross-referencing, and consistent organization of topics instead of > whatever threading support a mail client provides (which is inconsistent). > > I also want to consider moving the -dev lists to the same forum setup as > well; but that will be a separate conversation on those lists. > > A rollout plan has not been figured out. People are busy and there are > logistics to figure out. I will be engaging a handful of members from the > community to help with the transition. Specifically, there are those who > really value using email for participation on swift-evolution and > swift-users, and the goal is to get the forum setup to allow those people to > continue to feel effective when using email for discussions on these "lists". > > More details will be announced as they get figured out, but I felt it was > important to let the community know about this direction. > > Ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-us...@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >
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