At some point or another, I am sure that every code contributor has had a question about Release Engineering or the systems we run. The best place for this should have been #build. Instead, these discussions end up happening in various other channels because of the barrage of alerts from nagios. To put some approximate numbers on it, in 5 months, we had 69,000 messages in #build. Of these, 42,000 were messages from or to nagios. This makes it very difficult to have a conversation in #build.
To fix this, we have created #buildduty. This channel is specifically for nagios alerts and buildduty queries. The work to switch nagios to point to #buildduty is being tracked by bug 700817. Once this is done, #build should become a useful collaboration point for all things Release Engineering.