What the #perl6 IRC bots do

Do you feel like a n00b on #perl6, like I do, and wonder what the different bots do?

I keep forgetting what they are, so here's a list for you and me both:

dalek

Announces commits (mainly to rakudo, nqp-rx and the Perl 6 book)

hugme

Used for hugging another user without "direct" contact:

hugme: hug masak

ilbot2

Near-realtime IRC logs with automatic link generation to irclog.perlgeek.de. The original ilbot sucked, according to moritz.

ilogger2

Another logging bot

lambdabot

Keeps track of karma ("moritz++" adds one to moritz's karma score, "frettled--" subtracts one from mine)

lisppaste3

Announces entries pasted to http://paste.lisp.org/new/perl6 (which is where we paste code and other stuff, so that we avoid spamming the channel too much, and also don't have to worry about creating our own temporary web pages)

masak

Submits rakudo bugs. Aw, okay, then, he's not a bot, just a really nice guy!

mubot

Also tracks karma, attempting to be slightly less annoying than lambdabot. mubot is clever enough to recognize that your nick may vary slightly from time to time and channel to channel. mubot is written in Perl 6!

p6eval

Perl 6 code evaluation bot. We use this for live testing of code that may be of interest to others; it chats back to the channel. perl6: my $a; will result in a test against several Perl 6 interpreters (elf, mildew, mildew-js, pugs, rakudo, sprixel), nqp: say('foo') tests nqp-rx, std: my $a will parse the expression with STD.pm.

phenny

Our secretary. Sample usage:

phenny, tell frettled I'll get back to you on that

phenny will then let me know when I become active on the channel again.

pointme

Provides links to projects tracked by proto. Example usage:

< carlin> pointme: rssbot
< pointme> carlins's rssbot is at http://github.com/carlins/rssbot

pointme is written in Perl 6!

pugs_svn

Tracks commits to the pugs repository, most of which are changes to the test suite and spec.

zaslon

Tracks blog posts from a certain group of bloggers. Zaslon is written in Perl 6!

Thanks to carlin, Juerd, jnthn and moritz for late night clarifications!