Incase, the Swift team decided to use a forum.
I would like to suggest Discourse (http://www.discourse.org).
It is one of the most reliable open-source made forum and most
companies have been using it as their forum/community eg. Dockers,
Let's Encrypt, etc...
The Swift Team has a choice to host it on their own or pay
discourse.org to host it for you. Hosting on their own would be more
cheaper and gives you more control on how you want it to be set up. We
can easily set up a mailing list to all the people watching the
discussion and you can add in your own style of Authentication if
needed.
Slack will be very expensive because Slack cost almost $7 per active
member per month. If you don't pay, it will definitely be limiting.
Also, I don't think using chat for this kind of project will be more
productive as people need to revisit some discussions.
I can help the Swift Team set up Discourse if they are interested and
they can create a subdomain: https://community.swift.org for it.
Let me know.
Michie :)
Quoting Sean Alling via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org>:
+1
I think this is a great idea! The use of a mailing list is
manageable for a small (2-10) groups but doesn’t scale to the size
and frequency of comments/replies that the Swift Open Source project
has seen thus far. Not to mention, it reeks of 1996.
I’m not sure if we should authenticate users via AppleID, because we
want the Swift community to remain cross-platform going forward.
A Slack would be a great idea, for banter but may get crazy. We
would want the slack channels to remain subject pure (i.e., no
shenanigans). Email is good in this regard in that a reply is
expensive and therefore on-topic, whereas slack replies are cheap
and therefore easily off topic. Anyone have any idea to combat that?
Code of Conduct?
I think in making this decision we should separate the determination
that the mailing lists are posing too great a burden at our scale
from the selection of what we should use in its stead.
- Sean
I think this thread should focus on the mailing list vs forum, Slack is
not a forum. It could be nice to have it as an extra if we need it.
It looks to me that all benefits of a mailing list can be achieved by a
forum system with excellent support to read and reply using emails. But
the opposite is not true, one single simple example: we can't even link
related thread using email (as Tino mentioned on the Gmane thread).
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