Right now, a typical message is:
<wikibugs> Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017), Edit-Review-Improvements-RC-Page, MW-1.29-release (WMF-deploy-2017-03-28_(1.29.0-wmf.18)), MW-1.29-release-notes, Patch-For-Review: Add technology so we'll be able to track usage of RC Pa... - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158344#3126312The bug title, which isn't even that long, gets truncated, and a lot of the tag information is not necessary here. Also, the title and link, the most important parts, are at the end.
I can think of a few possibilities:
- Put a longer (though maybe still truncated) version of the title (and perhaps URL) at the beginning. Then, truncate the tags, and truncate the subject less.
- Blacklist tags
2a. Global blacklist (some that are never shown) E.g. the MW-1.29-release ones are probably not necessary.
2b. Only show the tag (s) that causes the entry to show in this channel, plus maybe a whitelist of useful tags (e.g. Patch-For-Review). E.g. if the channel is listening to Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017) and Edit-Review-Improvements-RC-Page, only put those (plus potentially Patch-For-Review from the global whitelist).
- Shorten milestones (only "Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017", not "Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017)").