irker

irker is an open source command-line software written in Python and designed as an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client. It runs in the background, as a daemon.

irker is able to accept notification requests as JSON objects and it's meant to be used by hook scripts in version-control repos.

This tool is intended to be installed on forge sites, such as GitHub, SourceForge, Gitorious, Savannah, and Gna.

What is new in this release:

• Fix for an infinite loop on failing to connect to IRC

What is new in version 2.5:

• Bug fix - remove a deadlock we inherited from irclib.

What is new in version 2.4:

• Bug fix release - some users reported failure to connect with 2.3.
• Also prevent a crash if Unicode shows up in the wrong place.

What is new in version 2.3:

• -i option enables immediate sending of one line in foreground.

What is new in version 2.2:

• Unicode processing was fixed. It was broken when irclib was removed.
• Python traceback is now shown on higher debug levels.

What is new in version 2.1:

• A performance improvement in the git repository hook.
• Documentation polishing.

What is new in version 2.0:

• The dependency on irclib is gone.
• An email delivery method, suitable for use on SourceForge.
• irkerhook can now be used as a hg changegroup hook.
• Prevent misbehavior on UTF-8 in commit metadata.
• Fix a crash bug on invalid hostnames.

What is new in version 1.20:

• Compatibility back to Python 2.4 (provided simplejson is present).
• Increased anti-flood delay to avoid trouble with freenode.

What is new in version 1.19:

• Fixed a minor bug in argument processing.

Requirements:

• Python