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 bmansurov@wikimedia.org 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 bgerstle@wikimedia.org 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 cfloyd@wikimedia.org 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 jhernandez@wikimedia.org 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.
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