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The project maintains a number of IRC bots designed to improve the user/community experience on IRC. At present, they are only deployed on the freenode IRC network.
Features
Live
- New issues created in Bugzilla are announced in #freebsd-bugs to assist triage.
In Development
- Returns issue information (title, url, status (??)) from Bugzilla to the channel (or user) when it sees a message containing an issue ID (~ <bug|issue|pr>[ ][#]<integer>)
- Returns man(ual) page information to the channel or users when requested (!man <query>)
Previously Brainstormed
Bots
TinHead
TinHead is the nickname of the “development” instance of IRC bot code used for testing. It is experimental in nature, and currently active in #freebsd-bugs and #freebsd-labs.
Other
Other registered bot names, not yet deployed into the main #freebsd channel
- VimDiesel
- MattDaemon
Team
- RodrigoHernandez (dandare) (Lead)
- LorenzoSalvadore (phascolarctos)
Discussion, development and testing takes place in #freebsd-labs