Andrew Savory wrote: > I'd object because the IRC channel can contain informal chat as well as > useful reference. IMHO the best way to get useful reference archived is > for summaries of chats that resolve a problem to be posted back to the > mailing list. This lets people talk in an informal context, but ensures > useful content is not lost.
Not all chats have the intention to resolve problems. What is considered to be "common" cocoon talk for one person can be a source of high-expertise information for another person. Nobody will bother posting chat logs back to the list unless it is a ground breaking idea or decision (which are never discussed on IRC in the first place !). A logging bot is a non-intrusive, no-effort way of recording stuff that just *might* be useful to someone, someday. If logging informal conversation is a problem, you can always prefix your chat with [off], which will cause it not being logged. I would've had this up and running long time already but am having problems getting the bot to connect to freenode.net (firewall issues?), and i'm not an IRC expert :( As an example, have a look at [1] to see how it could work. Regards, Jorg [1] http://svg.jibbering.com/svg/2005-02-01.html
