Hey Folks, I'm a big fan of having development discussions in the open, and in the past #developers has been the prime place to do that. Even if the benefit may not be apparent vs. having a private discussion or using a closed channel, I think this is one of many ways to increase interest within the community. Back when I got started with Mozilla as a volunteer, I enjoyed reading discussions in #developers because they allowed me to peek into things that Mozilla developers were working on, and at times got me interested in the code that was being talked about.
One thing that has recently "gotten in the way" of this is pulsebot. I acknowledge the usefulness of getting notifications on checkin, but it does add a lot of noise to #developers. Questions asked or discussions quickly fade away when pulsebot sends another dozen messages due to checkins and merges. How much exactly becomes apparent when you visit https://mozilla.logbot.info/developers/stats : pulsebot has said more than twice as much as anyone else. Of course you could say, why don't I just ignore pulsebot? The point is that only few will actually do so. My impression over time is that less of the questions I have asked are being answered, and my suspicion is that in part, people qualified to answer will just not see it in scrollback between all the pulsebot messages. Long story short, can we move pulsebot to a separate channel so that people can opt-in to, and encourage people to discuss their Gecko development topics in #developers again? Philip _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
