Git/IRC

Right now there's a bunch of discussions on how best to configure our IRC feeds in #mediawiki to get people the notifications they want without spamming other users.

Current layout

 * The channel (#mediawiki) is getting spammed by following notifications:

Random ideas

 * Disabled Gerrit "New review" messages when there is "(no comment)". That notification is triggered when some one change the Verified or CodeReview labels.
 * Get wikibugs change reviewed and deployed on production. That would split the bugzilla notifications per product. Changes are in /trunk/tool/wikibugs

#wikimedia-dev
we move the bots to #wikimedia-dev, thus we likely kill the #wikimedia-dev channel, and all #mediawiki devs will loose the track of what's going on (defacto we rename #mediawiki to #wikimedia-dev and most of people who were in #mediawiki will just move to -dev).

separate feed
We move the bots to separate channel which would be +m. That will make all channels more usable for regular talk. But some people will find it difficult because they would have to switch channels more often.
 * That is similar to the existing #mediawiki-codereview channel. That solution has my preference. Antoine &#34;hashar&#34; Musso (talk) 10:58, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

new channel for users
we create new channel for mediawiki help and keep the rest as it is
 * I would prefer #mediawiki to be the help channel. That is the easiest to remember of and probably the one most people will attempt to join by default. A new channel mean we will have to send people to another channel, leading to some frustration for newcomers / beginners. Antoine &#34;hashar&#34; Musso (talk) 11:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

customized feeds
we get all bots to -feed channel, where they send everything and reconfigure them to send only topic related feed to current channels, (mediawiki related stuff to #mediawiki, wikimedia related stuff to #wikimedia-dev) which either make the channels friendlier as well as we would have a relevant stuff in there (I don't understand why #mediawiki devs need to see bugs related to wikimedia platform issues, these should go to -dev). That would mean more spam in -dev and less spam in #mediawiki and more relevant feeds, people who just like to watch spam and flood could stay in #mediawiki-feed. It would involve some people to work on that and change the code of bots, devs are lazy (like me) so this is likely a bad option :)
 * -feed is to me a duplicate of -codereview . I am not sure what is the point of having another channel to host bots. Just reuse -codereview? Antoine &#34;hashar&#34; Musso (talk) 11:02, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Splitting bug notifications per product is a change in wikibugs source code which is still pending for review :-( Antoine &#34;hashar&#34; Musso (talk) 11:02, 27 June 2012 (UTC)