https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46322
--- Comment #3 from Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #2) > I don't think #wikimedia-dev should exist. > Moving MediaWiki development bots to a Wikimedia channel is pretty wrong. > #wikimedia-dev is not Wikimedia deployment specific development. It is development of software used by Wikimedia, which all of MediaWiki is obviously part of at least as long as either MediaWiki is a Wikimedia Foundation project and Wikipedia.org runs on MediaWiki. Regardless of whether our staff maintains it or not. #wikimedia-dev should exist by all means, it isn't specific but broad. Perhaps too broad, but that's why we have specific channels for teams that prefer their own area: - operations, visualeditor, parsoid, mobile, i18n. A #mediawiki-dev could exist leaving #wikimedia-dev with only non-MediaWiki related dev stuff, but that would be rather narrow. There is no justification to split it up right now I think. It isn't too crowded and splitting it up would go at the cost of more decentralisation and less integrated communication. > I'd much prefer #mediawiki-feeds. For what reason? Because you don't want to see it in channels that you're in? In that case we move it out of channels not meant for developers only (#mediawiki) and into #wikimedia-dev where it is reasonable to ask you to use /ignore if you don't like it. If you do find them useful, then how are they useful in a separate channel? You'd have to manually check up there to see for anything. I don't think that works well in practice. The whole idea of being exposed to other people's activities casually (without actively looking for it) wouldn't exist anymore then I believe. Besides, what about the channels for operations, visualeditor, parsoid, mobile. They all have bots related to their activities, because it makes sense to have it in the same channel so you're exposed to each others activities and can jump into things when they come by. Separating it out is counter-intuitive. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
