Difference between revisions of "IRC"

Revision as of 22:22, 11 August 2009

• The server is irc.dreamwidth.org
• The main channel is: #dw
• The developer mentoring channel is: #dw_kindergarten
• If you need more information on how this all works, see IRC help.
• IRC quote database
• No idea what people in IRC are saying? Common Jargon

Channels

#dw

General Dreamwidth chatter, including owners, developers, support, and cheerleaders.

#dw_antispam

For the anti-spam team. Ops are Azz and skrshawk. SpamBot is the resident bot, owned by exor674.

SpamBot announces new spam and when the queue has been cleared. The command 'SpamBot: spam' makes SpamBot list the current contents of the queue.

#dw_docs

For discussing documentation.

#dw_kindergarten

Intensive developer training; often quiet until someone asks a question.

#dw_nsfw

What it says on the can. For the NSFW discussions that sometimes pop up in #dw

#dw_ops

Mark, Denise, and Nagios the Annoying Wonder Bot.

#dw_styles

For discussing the styles system.

#dw_support

For support-types to hang out, ask questions, and learn.

#dw_tmi

For medical discussion and any of those generally interesting but actually occasionally a little gross discussions that sometimes start up.

#dw_work

A development/support/testing-focused channel without side-chatter.

#acrobot

For games of Acrophobia.

#figment

Testing channel for Figment

#hell

Testing channel for the hellbot.

#zilch

For playing Zilch.

Bots

IRC bots are programs people can interact with in the IRC channel. They have their own usernames and different uses.

Figment

Figment has several different features, and will answer to "Figment" or "Fig" interchangeably, as well as "Infobot" and "Bit".

(Currently, Figment will do a Bugsy-like lookup of Support requests in #dw_support upon someone mentioning the request number, such as request <x> or req <x> -- this may be subject to change as the tool uses screen scraping.)

Infobot

There is a DW-specific infobot in the channel named Figment; the commands to use him are:

infobot, <x> is <y>

This is how you ask Figment to remember a factoid <x>. For example, you might say:

infobot, wiki is http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/

which would ask him to remember that the factoid "wiki" was the URL to Dreamwidth's development wiki. This command works only in PM. You can ask him to recall a factoid with the command below.

infobot, <x>

This asks Figment to recall a factoid that was previously remembered. You can use this in channel or in PM.

infobot, no, <x> is <y>

If Figment already knows a factoid when you try to ask him to remember one, he'll tell you that he already knows it and he won't remember the new definition. This command tells him to change the factoid to the new definition anyway. This command works only in PM.

infobot, forget <x>

This asks Figment to forget the factoid <x>. This command works only in PM.

You can use "info," instead of "infobot," for any of these commands if you wish.

Bit

Ask Bit a yes or no question, or ask Bit to pick between comma-separated options. Bit will choose!

Bit, tally will make Bit give a tally of the yes and no answers since the last time Bit was rebooted.

Support-bot

Figment, green

This asks Figment to retrieve the stats on the support requests without approved answers.

Figment functions like Anna for a support-bot, for those who are familiar with Anna.

These may be addressed to "Fig" as well.

Figment, tags

This asks Figment to retrieve the bracketed tags in the subjects of support requests.

Figment, stars

This asks Figment to retrieve a list of categories that have reached their defined thresholds.

Figment, be Goat

Figment will give the green count in Goat style.

Figment, points <x>

Figment will give the number of support points for the given user or category, or (if not user or category is given) the total number of points available on the board if one were to leave an approved answer for all the open questions right now.

Figment, stale

Figment will give stats on the requests that have been open longest.

Figment, recent

Figment, recenttags

Figment, kittens

Figment will give a list of the categories that are under their defined thresholds. (Categories = cats = small cats = kittens)

Figment, random

Figment will give a random support request, optionally within a given category.

Figment, search

Figment, stats

Others

These may be addressed to "Fig" as well.

Figment, countdown <timezone>

Gives the time remaining until the specified time. fig, countdown 9pm EDT

Figment, gmt

Figment, is DW up?

Asks Figment to check if DW is up. "up" can be replaced with "down" synonymously.

Figment, math

Figment, twitter <x>

Reports the last tweet posted by a Twitter user. Defaults to @dreamwidth if no username is given. (The twitter account for Nagios is @dw_alerts.)

hEll bot

You can feed items to hell. When an item is fed to hell, hell will most likely spew out random items it has consumed.

feed <x> to hell

/me feeds <x> to hell

This feeds an item to Hell. Hell will probably at this point in time spew out one or two items it has been holding. It may also burp and not expel anything new.

(Hell recognises a number of synonyms for "feed". The current list is "feed", "send", "damn", "punt", "toss", "smite", "condemn", "hurl", "throw" and "kick". These can also be used in their equivalent form as part of a /me - for example, "/me damns <x> to hell".)

hell, tally

This tells you how many items hell is currently holding.

Hell does not have a search function, so the only way to know what is in hell at any given time is to have kept track (or ask hell's minder).

There is a separate level of hell for every channel that hell is in, so objects that are fed to it in its testing channel will not re-emerge in #dw, and vice versa.

Hell is rate limited in #dw, to avoid abuse.

The rumor that hell is sentient is just that: a rumor. Really. We swear. ...We hope.

Bugsy

Bugsy is a bot that notifies the channel when bugs are opened, closed, or receive patches. It will also bring up more information about any bug that you link to in channel.

bug <x> said in channel, anywhere in the sentence, will result in Bugsy linking the bug in question. If Bugsy isn't in the channel, Figment will normally ask him for you, as long as Figment is also in the channel.

@<x>

when starting a line with this, it does something, mostly Bugsy telling you that it wasn't a valid command (if you say "@denise that was awesome", for example).

Nagios

Nagios is a bot that pages Mark when the site is down. Or up. An archive of its messages can be found at @dw_alerts on Twitter.

Not to be mistaken for _nagios_, who is usually D being Very Silly at Mark's expense.