I was thinking all the mailing lists. > On Nov 9, 2017, at 7:07 AM, Alejandro Martinez <alexi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification on that Ted :) > Are all the mailing list gonna move there or only swift-evo? > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Ted Kremenek via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> The decision to move to a forum was announced a while ago, and it hasn’t >> appeared yet. I think we will be making the move soon and I wanted to >> provide some reasons why it was delayed and what comes next. >> >> The reasons it was delayed are twofold: >> >> - When we (the community) decided to move to a forum there was plenty of >> other planned infrastructure work that was in the works that took immediate >> priority (such as the source compatibility suite and supporting Swift 4 >> development). >> >> - In August (when Swift 4 was wrapping up) my team at Apple seriously picked >> up the topic of the forum again and started looking in how to make it >> happen. At that point, a bunch of unexpected delays, one after the other, >> happened. I can’t share these details (they are mostly non-technical) and >> going through them would come off as me making a bunch of excuses anyway. I >> do realize the forum has been promised and not yet delivered for some time, >> and I know how frustrating that is to the community. >> >> Here’s what happens next: >> >> - We plan on having the company behind Discourse.org host the forums. We’re >> wrapping up the remaining steps to issue a PO, but my hope is to get that >> all done within the next couple weeks. Thanksgiving in the USA may delay >> that to the beginning of December. >> >> - My understanding is the forum will still have a swift.org address, so the >> hosting is just an implementation detail. >> >> - The company hosting Discourse.org will migrate the existing mailing list >> archives over to the new forum. One thing we will need to figure out >> (possibly as a community?) are specific requirements we have in place for >> that migration. The new forums don’t have to exactly mirror how the mailing >> lists are structured today, and part of the reason to move to the forum was >> motivated by having new opportunities to structure conversations. >> >> I suspect there will be some trial and error with moving over the existing >> mailing lists to the new forum, and I don’t have a good feel on how long >> that will take. However, once we reach that stage, it should be very >> transparent to the community what exactly is going on. My hope is that >> process will start in December. >> >> Ted >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> swift-evolution@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> > > > > -- > Alejandro Martinez > http://alejandromp.com
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