- irker - submission tool for IRC notifications
+ irker - submission tools for IRC notifications
-irker is a specialized IRC client that runs as a daemon, allowing
+irkerd is a specialized IRC client that runs as a daemon, allowing
other programs to ship IRC notifications by sending JSON objects to a
-listening socket. It is meant to be used by hook scripts in version-
-control repositories, allowing them to send commit notifications
-to project IRC channels.
+listening socket.
-A hook script supporting git and Subversion (irkerhook.py) is included.
-See its header comment for installation instructions.
+It is meant to be used by hook scripts in version-control
+repositories, allowing them to send commit notifications to project
+IRC channels. A hook script, irkerhook.py, supporting git, hg, and
+Subversion is included in the distribution; see the install.txt file
+for installation instructions.
-Due to the abrupt death of cia.vc in late September 2012 the
-inmitial release of this software was a bit rushed. See the file
-BUGS for known problems.
+Please read the files security.txt and hacking.txt before modifying
+this code.
Eric S. Raymond
- August 2012
+ September 2012