According to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54984 , the new wikibugs code (not yet deployed) will split the wikibugs output into a myriad of channels (this is independent from the name of the default channel).
This fragmentation is very annoying because it effectively subtracts important parts of the code/development/discussion from the normal public view on the main channel (whatever its name is) even though they are offtopic, hiding them in some secondary channel.
The secondary channels should receive additional copies of the relay, but not remove them from the main channel if they are on topic (for instance, the visual editor for MediaWiki obviously is on topic for MediaWiki-General and #wikimedia-dev).
As a fallback, if people really think those products are so unimportant/trashy ("noise") as to be ignored by people on the main channel, I'd like a single unified feed somewhere, e.g. #mediawiki-feed (it's not clear to me what wm-bot4 [~wm-bot@wikimedia/bot/wm-bot] is doing there exactly).
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52529
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10760