Can we remove or quiet down the commit bot in the chatrooms

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, 20 May 2021, 6:48 am Carl Schwan, <carl at carlschwan.eu> wrote:

> Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 8:37 PM, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> a écrit :
>
> > I find it rather difficult to use #plasma for chats and discussions
> > because of the near-constant spam from the commit announcement bot.
> >
> > It's not that it's useless to have commits announced, but when it
> > happens in a room where humans are interacting, it's rather disruptive
> > and spammy. Maybe we could move the bot into a dedicated commit announce
> > room so that the people who care about this can still see the
> > announcements there?
>
> I did something similar in kde-www and ihmo this is so much better
> experience.
> >
> > Alternatively could we change the bot so that it sends one message for
> > each commit instead of like 4 or 5?
>
> Another alternative would be to switch from skreamer for commit
> notification
> to the Matrix gitlab bot[1]. This


You mean pursuivant right?

sKreamer provides the bugbot services and announces changes to RSS feeds
(mostly for the forum)

pursuivant announces new commits and bugs.

provides the improvement of sending
> notifications as notices in Matrix so that Matrix clients don't create
> notifications for these type of messages and also display the events using
> a lighter color. This would also notify us about new MR (but I guess this
> is configurable if not desirable).
>

Having looked at that Maubot plugin, I can confirm it would be highly
unsuitable for deployment as it requires configuration on a repository by
repository basis.


> Carl
>
> [1]: https://github.com/maubot/gitlab
> >
> > Nate
>

Cheers,
Ben
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