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 -
)
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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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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