On 3 October 2012 08:21, Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote: > Responding to no one in particular, but to the sub-thread about IRC > bots: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 08:32:26 +0200 > Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02-10-2012 12:40:20 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> > The irker proxy was mentioned in this thread. I think we should look >> > into this. Unless someone has a better idea. >> >> I think it might be more beneficial to try and relay -commits email to >> irc. > > An IRC bot is nice, but CIA also provided current (!) statistics, which > isn't merely useful in order to boost your own morale/ego/self-esteem, > but also provided up to date information about other developers' > activity, which can help other developers decide if and when to step in > and start (temporarily) maintaining packages that need immediate > attention. ohloh cannot do that for us, presently, and a simple IRC > bot cannot either.
Indeed. I mentioned that in passing as well (that their website was useful), and you explain why. I don't think any of the replacement options I've seen have this feature. Does anyone know of something that might offer us this? Or should we develop something in-house? -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
