A while back a decision was reached to move from using mailing lists for
swift-evolution to using a forum, specifically Discourse. At the time that
decision was made, efforts had been already well committed for supporting the
development of Swift 4 — including efforts supporting important infrastructure
efforts such as the source compatibility suite. I apologize for not providing
more transparency in why moving to a forum was being delayed. Some things took
longer than expected.
To be clear, the plan is to still move to Discourse, and with Swift 4 winding
down there is now bandwidth to focus on making the transition from mailing
lists to a forum. As part of that transition, I’d like to get some feedback
from the community.
There has been some good conversations on this mailing list on how
swift-evolution can possibly evolve to better serve the needs of the community.
I’m not talking about whether or not we use a mailing list or a forum — that
decision has been made. Specifically, I’m talking about how a forum could best
be structured to organize discussions and allow everyone to optimally
participate. In the move to Discourse, we have the opportunity here to
possibly do things a bit differently than we have been so far.
For example, here are some of the questions I’m thinking about how we should be
use a forum:
- We currently have swift-evolution and swift-evolution-announce. Should we
use a specific “category” in the forum for "proposals that are in active
review" — and possibly remove the need to have something like
swift-evolution-announce?
- Should we have other topical areas to organize discussions? If so, at what
granularity?
We can certainly figure out a lot of this over time, but I’d like some feedback
from the community now on things they’d like to see in how we organize the
swift-evolution forum based on experiences we’ve had with swift-evolution since
it was created.
Please chime in on this thread if you have feedback, and focus on keeping this
constructive.
Thanks,
Ted
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