In my experience, the bots in the channel are an important part of our workflow -- new bug reports, bug updates, and patches in gerrit. When I'm discussing things in #wikimedia-dev I usually end up having to manually add references to something that a bot already sent to #mediawiki, which is one of the reasons I've always preferred using #mediawiki.
Please don't make yet another split-off channel; that'll be annoying and make things more complicated for little if any benefit. -- brion On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:01 AM, btb <[email protected]> wrote: > hi- > > i'm hopeful this is the appropriate venue for this topic - i recently had > occasion to visit #mediawiki on freenode, looking for help. i found myself > a bit frustrated by the amount of bot activity there and wondered if there > might be value in some consideration for this. it seems to frequently > drown out/dilute those asking for help, which can be a bit > discouraging/frustrating. additionally, from the perspective of those who > might help [based on my experience in this role in other channels], > constant activity can sometimes engender disinterest [e.g. the irc client > shows activity in the channel, but i'm less inclined to look as it's > probably just a bot]. > > to offer one possibility - i know there are a number of mediawiki and/or > wikimedia related channels - might there be one in which bot activity might > be better suited, in the context of less contention between the two > audiences [those seeking help vs. those interested in development, etc]? > one nomenclature convention that seems to be at least somewhat of a > defacto standard is #project for general help, and #project-dev[el] for > development topics. a few examples of this i've seen are android, > libreoffice, python, and asterisk. adding yet another channel to this list > might not be terribly welcome, but maybe the distinction would be worth the > addition? > > as i'm writing this, i see another thread has begun wrt freenode, and i > also see a bug filed that relates at least to some degree [ > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=35427<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35427>], > so i may just be repeating an existing sentiment, but i wanted to at least > offer a brief perspective. > > regards > -ben > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
