On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:58 Tino Heth <2...@gmx.de> wrote: > > For Swift 4, the core team identified a set of priorities. Provided the > same will be done for Swift 5, these are natural categories for the > evolution part of the forum, to my mind. > > We fully agree on this point. > > It should have the positive effect of encouraging discussion to be > focused, and would allow even new participants to see in what ways they can > contribute. > > … but I'm actually not so sure about the benefit of focussing: > I've heard from several people that they want to participate in the > discussions, but are repelled by the ML. > Don't understand me wrong, I think that is a big argument for the switch — > but if it starts a second hype, we might be happy if each one of us > concentrates on the areas he's interested in, instead of having hundreds of > answers for the topic of the day ;-) >
Wait, but that _is_ what we want—the argument for moving to a different format is to attract more participation so that we get deeper feedback reflecting a broader swath of the community for the topic of the day. It’s _not_ been about getting hundreds of topics going, and in fact IMO that’s an anti-goal! >
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