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

[Craig Bradney]

On 12/07/2014 8:05 am, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
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>> 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:
>>>
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>>> 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
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> 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.
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He was in IRC the other night, in the US. Just busy. Life changes.

He will help us get stuff up and running as time permits.

Craig