Monday, November 9, 2009

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!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

hello,

sounds great. I would like to see the bots codes for the perl6 written ones. any link ?

bakkushan said...

Just join #perl6 and say e.g.:

pointme: mubot