Did you even read my e-mail? I was talking about converting current -dev to general developer channel, not about creating another channel
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-02-27 8:30 AM, "Petr Bena" <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> as Gry in #wikipedia recently mentioned, there is no IRC channel for >> general wikimedia developer purposes - project wide and language wide. >> >> There are subchannels for certain projects, but no general channel for >> wikimedia devs of all kinds from all projects. >> >> I suppose we could use #wikimedia-dev as a general channel for all >> developers no matter of project or programming language. What do you >> think? >> >> Bellow is a message written by Gry who doesn't want to be part of this >> mailing list >> >> ------- from gry@irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia --------- >> >> Hi, >> >> Could we make an IRC channel dedicated to development of software for >> wikimedia projects (bots, js tools like twinkle, irc bots, etc)? Some >> people who work on some software for few wikimedia projects would >> likely benefit if they had a place to discuss its implementation, >> other than just ask #wikipedia (the largest channel of all). As the >> questions may get more tricky at times, a smaller, more >> development-minded channel could be a tad more effective at actually >> helping (regardless of what project they're from, be that wikipedia or >> wikibooks or something else). >> >> There currently is #wikimedia-dev which actually is a place for >> #mediawiki devs to meet, but they're not too happy with two channels >> either [1] and it could be possible to discuss a take over. Or >> otherwise a new channel named, say, #wikimedia-devel. > > The people who arent happy with two channels are going to be happier with 3? > > What's #wikimedia-tech used for now a days? From what I gather it is used > for general technical help on wikimedia projects, which sounds kind of in > the same direction as what you are suggesting (disclaimer: I don't > generally idle/join that channel, so dont really know) > > -bawolff > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
