On 01/23/2015 08:31 PM, Erik Rose wrote:> I like logging but not so I can point at someone and shout "Gotcha!" Rather, I've
set up logging on project-related channels mostly as a source of free documentation, via web search: we'd just stick the text
files on a web server and let Google pick them up. The members of the channel loved it.
To keep the chilling effects down, we had a "no-log" prefix people could start their
messages with to opt out of the log. We used the rather verbose but self-explanatory
"[nolog]", but it could be as simple as a leading period:
Sally: I think it should 25.
Fred: .Ugh, if I have to use that framework again, I'll scream.
Fred: 25 sounds good.
While that's handy, on a large project like this there's likely
multiple people logging the channel, and they probably don't all
agree on the conventions. :)
In the CSSWG channel, for example, we have 3 different logbots: one
from W3C (which uses /me to hide messages), one set up by Krijn,
and one set up by plinss on csswg.org. The latter two log all
messages.
So I think it'd be misleading to have such a capability in the
Mozilla channels, at least the larger ones. (Maybe in the smaller
ones it's easier to enforce that there's only one logbot that
follows X convention.)
~fantasai
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