On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]> wrote:
> The ASFBot supports posting JIRA updates to IRC channel. Currently it > configured to post notifications on all issue changes. But it seems to > generate a lot traffic to IRC channel and may distract from > discussions. See yesterday conversion for example [1]. Please note > that this was not bulk update -- I was cleaning up some old issues, > fixing milestone etc. > Yes, those were a lot of notifications but I don't feel that they were excessive. After all, you did an issue sweep and this is something people might want to be aware of. I guess the important thing is that the "[Update]" tag in the JIRA notification must be reliably mean "meta data changed". Then people can quickly glance over those in the IRC. I suggest to disable "Issue Update" notifications go to IRC channel. > I.e. post only "Issue Open", "Issue Commented", "Issue Resolved" and > "Issue Closed" notifications. This change wouldn't affect JIRA > notifications for [email protected]. Another option to disable JIRA IRC > notifications completely. > What is the proportion of the "Issue Update" vs. all other notifications over the lifetime of a JIRA issue? I would expect that to be < 50%. I'm not against filtering it but I feel that the current surge in IRC "spam" is only temporary and might skew our cost / benefit perception. -- Stefan^2.
