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 and
-Subversion is included in the dustribution; see the install.txt file
+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.
-There's an alpha-stage proxy that takes CIA XML-RPC notofications
-and passes them to a local irker instance. Find it here:
+The advantage of using this daemon over individual scripted sends
+is that it can maintain connection state for multiple channels,
+avoiding obnoxious join/leave spam.
- https://github.com/nenolod/irker-cia-proxy
-
-Due to the abrupt death of cia.vc in late September 2012 the
-initial 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