Archives of Fedora IRC channels

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:00:21PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> If we have to retain public archives of all Fedora IRC channels
> > 
> > have to, or would like to?
> 
> Like to I guess.
> 
> > 
> >>  what would be the best way to do that? Is there a online services
> >> that offer this or should we running bots on all of these channels
> >> or something else? There are many instances where contributors are
> >> not able to participate in a meeting or discussions. Having public
> >> archives would help them go back and look at what was discussed
> >> anytime they want.
> > 
> > I run a boringly simple eggdrop (mdomschbot) in a few channels, which
> > I use to generate the FPB meeting minutes.  I don't believe there's a
> > service on FreeNode (ala ChanServ) that offers this, which is why I
> > set up my own bot.  Are you thinking such a bot could be run by
> > Infrastructure or somesuch?
> 
> Yes. If we are running such a bot across all channels, it could probably 
> do other useful things too. For example, there is a cluebot in 
> #fedorabot channel which is very useful for bug triaging.

Please don't run cluebot in -devel.  Or, more specifically, don't have
it do bugzilla lookups based on keywords.  It gets very annoying.
Having it done on explicit request would be ok I suppose.

josh