On 2013-02-27 8:30 AM, "Petr Bena" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > as Gry in #wikipedia recently mentioned, there is no IRC channel for > general wikimedia developer purposes - project wide and language wide. > > There are subchannels for certain projects, but no general channel for > wikimedia devs of all kinds from all projects. > > I suppose we could use #wikimedia-dev as a general channel for all > developers no matter of project or programming language. What do you > think? > > Bellow is a message written by Gry who doesn't want to be part of this > mailing list > > ------- from gry@irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia --------- > > Hi, > > Could we make an IRC channel dedicated to development of software for > wikimedia projects (bots, js tools like twinkle, irc bots, etc)? Some > people who work on some software for few wikimedia projects would > likely benefit if they had a place to discuss its implementation, > other than just ask #wikipedia (the largest channel of all). As the > questions may get more tricky at times, a smaller, more > development-minded channel could be a tad more effective at actually > helping (regardless of what project they're from, be that wikipedia or > wikibooks or something else). > > There currently is #wikimedia-dev which actually is a place for > #mediawiki devs to meet, but they're not too happy with two channels > either [1] and it could be possible to discuss a take over. Or > otherwise a new channel named, say, #wikimedia-devel.
The people who arent happy with two channels are going to be happier with 3? What's #wikimedia-tech used for now a days? From what I gather it is used for general technical help on wikimedia projects, which sounds kind of in the same direction as what you are suggesting (disclaimer: I don't generally idle/join that channel, so dont really know) -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
