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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > -- Alejandro Martinez http://alejandromp.com _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
