Java team IRC channel

Jérôme Charaoui <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:36:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

At the moment the #debian-java channel is much less useful than it could 
be because of the high number of Salsa notifications that are sent to 
it. These notifications are also quite bursty: in between periods of 
quiet time, there could be several dozen notifications printed to the 
channel in a short time span.

So, as I mentioned during today's DebConf Java-team BoF meeting, I'd 
like to propose moving *all* Salsa notifications for java-team projects 
to a new channel: #debian-java-changes

- All branches
- Push, tag and MR events only

I would also like to propose adding Debian's Java packages to the BTS 
bot [1] on IRC, to post BTS and archive notifications to 
#debian-java-changes as well.

This is akin to what other teams are doing in Debian.

I believe this change will help make the IRC channel useful again for 
mutual help and onboarding newcomers to the Debian Java packaging world.

Does that work for everyone?

Thanks.

[1] https://github.com/sebastinas/debian-devel-changes-bot