[Swift-devel] Mailing lists, documentation update, etc.

[Matthew Shaxted]

Google Groups seems to be a popular forum / list discussion solution.

An open source mapping platform called Cesium uses it with much success:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cesium-dev



On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Michael Wilde <wilde at anl.gov> wrote:

>  Dear All,
>
> We need to handle this in the next 2 days to avoid outages on the Swift
> lists.
>
> Has anyone already taken some actions for this, or has there already been
> a discussion or decision on how to handle this?
>
> Whats the most accessible and open-source-friendly way to maintain list
> discussions?  We might need an interim solution, or we can use this as an
> opportunity to improve our communication channels and unify Swift K & T
> communications.
>
> Craig's latest reminder on the CI mailing list close-out is at the end of
> this message.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Mike
>
>
> On 6/30/15 1:53 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 23:16 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
>
>  This may be a good time to make the lists appear to be hosted at swift-lang.org.
>
>  An even better idea.
>
>
>  It would also be good to move the list archives to that domain. We
> should see if that is possible, an dhow forwarding would work.
>
>  Yeah, I don't get how this works, but from Ian's quote of what Craig
> says, the implementation and the interface seem to be different things.
> So we should probably talk to Craig.
>
> Mihael
>
>
>  -------- Forwarded Message --------  Subject: REMINDER:Swift-devel
> mailing list to be retired July 31, 2015  Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:09:39
> -0500  From: Craig Stacey <stace at mcs.anl.gov> <stace at mcs.anl.gov>  Reply-To:
> support at ci.uchicago.edu  To: Swift-devel-owner at ci.uchicago.edu
>
> As previously announced, the CI mailing list server will soon be retired.
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> If you do nothing, the list will stop working at end of July. Any archives that
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> If you want to retain and move the list, your best option is to create a new
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>
>
> --
> Michael Wilde
> Mathematics and Computer Science          Computation Institute
> Argonne National Laboratory               The University of Chicago
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