On 2 September 2010 17:40, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2010/9/3 Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
* Shut down the secret staff IRC channel.
Development discussion can
take place in #mediawiki, ops in #wikimedia-tech, other stuff in
#wikimedia or whatever. If users interfere with ops' discussions
sometimes in #wikimedia-tech during outages or such, set all sysadmins
+v and set the channel +m as necessary. That's worked in the past.
You're
assuming that development discussions actually take place in
these channels, which is not the case. We mostly use them for
chit-chat and private or office-related things. Questions like "how
should I design X in my code" very rarely show up in these channels,
and I don't think anyone would have a problem with being more
conscious about this and moving to a public place for such a
discussion.
I don't think he is making that assumption, lots of chit-chat happens
on any channel — it makes us feel left out if you have a special one
(humans are really bad at the jealousy thing). What "private or
office-related" things are there that you can't share with developers?
Conrad