On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
In my experience, the bots in the channel are an
important part of our
workflow -- new bug reports, bug updates, and patches in gerrit. When I'm
discussing things in #wikimedia-dev I usually end up having to manually add
references to something that a bot already sent to #mediawiki, which is one
of the reasons I've always preferred using #mediawiki.
Please don't make yet another split-off channel; that'll be annoying and
make things more complicated for little if any benefit.
I think I agree with Brion more than anyone else. I find the bots to
be incredibly useful, and jumping back and forth between channels
is a pain. Also like I've said multiple times in multiple places over
the past couple of days--when you move channels you fracture
discussion. It happened with #wikimedia-dev, and it'll happen again
here if we don't do this right.
However, I see the argument to be made that if you're not a regular
then the bots can be rather annoying to filter out. And honestly,
someone who drops in for a few minutes to ask a question shouldn't
be asked to /ignore every random bot they see.
Is there some middle ground here?
-Chad