> On 2 Aug 2017, at 09:44, Tino Heth via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the update!
> 
>> -  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?  
> Guess swift-evolution-announce is the right place to ask this question… but I 
> don't know where the answers should go ;-)

Whatever we do concerning swift-evolution-announce, I think it would be worth 
pinning the review threads to the top of swift-evolution during the review 
period.

>> Just to help frame the rest of the discussion on this thread, the intention 
>> is to move all of the lists to Discourse.
> All lists, and a single instance of Discourse?
> I don't remember if there was a discussion about Discourse in swift-dev… imho 
> that list doesn't suffer from the problems that evolution has.
> Also, it will be very easy to cross-post from users to evolution (without 
> switching from Mailclient to browser and search for a post in the archives), 
> so imho a strong separation has no downsides.

I think swift-users, swift-evolution and swift-evolution-announce would all 
benefit a lot from Discourse because they are high volume and is more 
approchable for newcomers. I don’t have a strong opinion about the -dev lists, 
but its true it would be simpler if everything was on the same platform.

>> - Should we have other topical areas to organize discussions?  If so, at 
>> what granularity?
> There are some topics (multithreading, metaprogramming, reflection, generics, 
> ownership…) that imho couldn't be pushed forward on the mailing list because 
> of their size.
> I hope Discourse will help to manage concepts that don't fit in a single 
> proposal (there's a wiki posts feature that sounds promising) and allows 
> talking about features that can't be implemented soon, but might be affected 
> by short-term changes.
> There are already some manifestos written, so I guess there might be Core 
> members with special interest in certain topics who could act as patron for 
> "their" subject.

I think it would be very beneficial to organise discussions by topics. That 
would allow pinning the relevant manifestos at the top for everyone to keep in 
mind :)

> I'm quite sure that moving to a forum will increase the number of posts 
> dramatically — but it also offers help to manage higher throughput:
> - We could have one or more focus-topics for each release ("X is up next, 
> other topics won't receive much attention from Core")
> - With likes, there's an easy way to signal agreement to an opinion without 
> flooding the ML. This could help Core to to find relevant input.
> 
> Looking forward to login ;-)
> - Tino
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