+1. I also find myself less likely to read the backscroll because of the high volume of pulsebot messages.
Thanks for bringing this up! On Nov 4, 2017 07:45, "Philipp Kewisch" <mozi...@kewis.ch> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
