Sorry guys I am very -1 on this issue. IRC is inherently a very casual discussion forum and logging it might discourage people from "thinking aloud". Not saying that we have things to hide, however it is important to have a "private" space. I fear if IRC becomes logged, then conversations will be held in real-space which is even less accessible.
I do use screen+irssi (and have used it on and off for over 15 years) and I highly recommend it to people - you never have to worry about missing a conversation or coming in and not seeing the last 10 minutes of said conversation. It also allows your irc client to become a message drop point (people can leave you private msgs when you are afk). Here in SF, comcast doesn't filter incoming port 22, and combined with dyndns and a linksys firewall (and vmware) it's easy to have a small Linux vm that is just for small internet things like this. -ryan On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi JD, > > I am doing a similar thing but I have switched machines and lost > history many times that way. But some times it would be good to go > back in time and search for a topic, like in the mail archive. Because > otherwise you could also argue "why do we need an email archive, I > have an email program running that downloads them so I can read them > when I have time". > > The bot is done by Steven from Outerthought - but I am not sure what > his long term plans are. Steven, are you listening? > > Lars > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> > wrote: >> I know there's one bot in the channel that logs everything, but the >> logs aren't public and I don't remember who set this up. >> >> Personally I use irssi+screen so that people can I even talk to me >> when I'm offline. Stack, Ryan, Todd and some others do the same. >> >> J-D >> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Paul Smith <psm...@aconex.com> wrote: >>> is there an online IRC log of the #hbase discussions someone can point me >>> to.. ? is it logged? >>> >>> I feel I miss out on lots either overnight or during my work day, and I >>> can't keep up. See lots of juicy JIRA things from obviously detailed >>> discussions but I like to see the raw info. >>> >>> tah. >>> >>> Paul >> >
