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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.
Official FreeBSD IRC bots always have the freebsd/bot/<nickname> hostmask cloak, with a link in their /whois information pointing to this page.
Features
Live
- [TinHead] New issues created in Bugzilla are announced in #freebsd-bugs to assist triage.
- [VimDiesel] URL title “snarfer”. Returns the <title> of URL's observed in channel. #freebsd-social
In Development
- Bugzilla Issue Information
- Returns (id, title, url) to the channel (or user) when it sees an Issue ID (
~ <bug|issue|pr>[ ][#]<integer>) in a message - Returns (id, title, url) to the channel (or user) for the
!issue <ID>command
- Returns man(ual) page information to the channel (or user) for the
!man <query>[sektion]command
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:
- VimDiesel
- MattDaemon (not yet deployed)
Team
- RodrigoHernandez (dandare) (Lead)
- LorenzoSalvadore (phascolarctos)
Discussion, development and testing takes place in #freebsd-labs