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Mon, 07 Feb 2011

An offer for software developers: free IRC logging


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The Perl 6 developers communicate a lot through IRC. Some of the conversation is still valuable later on, so we have public IRC logs.

The software powering these logs was written especially for #perl6, but works fine for other channels too. Among the other users are TestML, CDK (Chemistry Development Kit), darcs, mojo, Padre, the Perl IDE, Parrot and Rosetta Code.

If you are also developing software, and would like public logs for your channel (either on freenode or irc.perl.org; other servers might be added on demand), feel free to contact me (moritz on freenode, or per email: moritz at faui2k3.org)

Features include: linking to individual lines, permanent URLs and volatile URLs for the current day, automatic linking of URLs and readable color schemes.

A current limitation is that you can't have two channels with the same name from different networks, in case of conflict "first come, first served" holds.

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TimToady wrote


I think "Index | Channel Index" is unclear, and should be renamed to "Channels | #foo Index" or some such. I always think the channel index is the index of all channels...

Moritz wrote

Thanks, changed
Thanks for the suggestion, I've now pushed the changes. Caching might imply that you will only see the change on new pages for a while.

Chris Fields wrote


Thank you very much for providing this, it's been nice to have this available in case I can't log onto IRC. Also, small thing but I noticed that the page listing the channels (http://irclog.perlgeek.de/) has some odd repeated listings (see #bioperl and the next line).

Moritz wrote

Another fix
Weird channel names have been fixed too, and I've prevented new ones from appearing.

Eric Kow wrote


Just a quick testimonial (I stumbled on this searching for blog postings on darcs and figured I should throw in my 2p).

As a Darcs Team member, I'm really happy with the logging that Moritz has provided for us. Being able to link back to discussions at a specific time and having them be so easy to read or browse through later on is great. It's not just that it looks nice, but that it over all works very well.

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