On 2 September 2010 17:40, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/9/3 Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com>: >> * 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
