[scribus-dev] Infrastructure augmentations pt.3 (IRC Bot)

["Christoph Schäfer"]

> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Juli 2014 um 03:50 Uhr
> Von: "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com>
> An: "Scribus Development Mailing List" <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>
> Betreff: Re: [scribus-dev] Infrastructure augmentations pt.3 (IRC Bot)
>
> On 07/10/2014 09:20 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote:
> > Thank you so far for you attention and participation. If you've not 
> > read the first 2 parts, no worries, you can read this independently.
> >
> > Contnuing Pt.1 (Mediawiki) and Pt.2 (MantisBT) of this series of email 
> > the next iteration of this idea would be to restore utility to what 
> > can be done via Freenode #scribus
> >
> > So, I understand that historically there used to be a #Scribus channel 
> > bot that did cool bot things on the channel :) Not sure the history of 
> > why it doesn't anymore. Nevertheless, here is what my vision is and 
> > perhaps you can see the utility of it. What I'd like to propose is 
> > bringing some functionality back or introducing some functionality 
> > that may not have been there:
> >
> >
> > 7) Update the channel when SVN is updated with commit message (useful)
> >
> I confess to not being on IRC much anymore, but #7 at least used to happen.
> 
> Greg


We used to have an IRC bot ("mrscribe"), but it had been operated by malex. As others have already mentioned, Alex has been AWOL for some time. Having been in a similar situation after a heavy accident and barely escaping paraplegia, I hope he'll be back in full force soon, developments in Ukraine notwithstanding.


Christoph