This isn't discussion about git, but feeds we have in #mediawiki, feed from git is definitely not the only one
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 23/06/12 20:34, Petr Bena wrote: >>> Yes, the bots are useful for devs, that's the reason why we made them >>> and there is a little point to argue about that. But they aren't >>> useful for other users of #mediawiki especially users who seek help. >>> IMHO #mediawiki should be used for development (bots are probably ok), >>> #wikimedia-dev for wikimedia related developement (some bots are ok) >>> and there should be another channel for mediawiki support, which would >>> be user friendly. >>> >>> If we keep the bots as they are we won't fix anything (if you think >>> that there is no issue, read the first mail). >>> >>> If we move the bots to #wikimedia-dev we likely kill the >>> #wikimedia-dev channel, and all #mediawiki devs will loose the track >>> of what's going on (defacto we rename #mediawiki to #wikimedia-dev and >>> most of people who were in #mediawiki will just move to -dev). >>> >>> If we move the bots to separate channel which would be +m, we will >>> make all channels more usable for regular talk. But some people will >>> find it difficult because they would have to switch channels more >>> often. >> >> The problem is not as much as switching channels, but seeing the changes >> after the fact, when you'd have liked it 5 minutes earlier. >> A solution could be to configure each individual to copy -feed messages >> to the #mediawiki screen, but I'm not fond of that solution. >> Chad asked for a middle ground, actually there would be a way in irc to >> make the bot messages to only arrive to some people, but it'd be very hacky. >> And with any of these, it'd be confusing that people read different >> things at the same time on the same channel. >> > > Could we maybe take this single discussion on-wiki? I'm finding it > impossible to keep track of all of the IRC discussions in separate > locations (here, bugzilla) when what we need is just one centralized > place to hash this out. > > Might I suggest: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/IRC? > > Thanks, > > Chad > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
