I personally detest them now I am working with mostly a remote team. They are useful occasionally but not missing messages from team members is far too important for me.
I've not found a good way to filter these out (look at the pink lines that mean pings in my irc client - http://imgur.com/MsYk9OO) I've also noticed an increase in private conversations recently to compensate for this which sucks for openness. A compromise to reduce noise might be: * don't include name of author in patch submits/phabricator tasks reported by the bot (so that author doesn't get pings that mask other pings from other users) - but someone would have to implement this. I think moving to a new channel seems like an easy solution. Nothing gets missed provided people know to join it and nothing needs to be implemented. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bahodir Mansurov <[email protected]> wrote: > I think they should stay and everyone should be able to configure their > client to hide specific message from showing. > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Totally agree, having *important messages only* in IRC would be nice. > Another idea would be to have notifs go to more specific chat rooms based on > the project. > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think this is a good idea… the only thing I think should be in the main >> channel is something like breaking the build (at least for the apps guys) >> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I've been feeling that the signal to noise ratio on #wikimedia-mobile >>> since the addition of wikibugs and our new apps engineers (more grrrit-wm >>> spam) is turning to be 0 (that is, no signal because of too much noise). >>> >>> It is really difficult to talk about anything when somebody else is >>> working (and that is what we do, so...). >>> >>> I would like to propose moving the machines to a different channel, maybe >>> a couple of them ( #wikimedia-mobile-web-bots & #wikimedia-mobile-apps-bots >>> for example ) so that they continue to be useful but in a different channel, >>> and so that we can read again the chats with just the conversations. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Corey Floyd >> Software Engineer >> Mobile Apps / iOS >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle > IRC: bgerstle > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
