Archives of Fedora IRC channels

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 20 17:14:56 UTC 2007


Max Spevack wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> I did explain that in the original mail. For contributors and users to 
>> look back at what discussions happened in any Fedora channel at any 
>> time. Meetings planned or adhoc. Questions that were answered before etc.
> 
> I wonder how useful something like that would end up being, just as a 
> bunch of raw data.  At least the mailman archives are pretty easy to 
> navigate.  Piles of IRC logs... shudder.
> 
> Without some way of organizing the information in the logs, it kind of 
> seems like a waste of time, no?  And wouldn't the time spent organizing 
> (or writing a program to organize) that info be better spent elsewhere 
> in Fedora?

It's just a matter of running a bot (which already exists) on all the 
channels. I guess it wouldnt take more than an hour to setup for someone 
more familiar with it.

Rahul




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