I recently blogged about a nice hack presented by the Last.fm guys on the Future of Web Applications conference here in London.

The hack consists of having an IRC bot tell everyone on a certain channel that something in the development process has happened, i.e. ticket changes in Trac or commits to Subversion.

Richard Jones open sourced the hack and I’ve managed to get it to work on a project we’re working on. The trickiest part was to get Richard’s code for the Trac plugin to work.

I’ve created a Google project for the packaging of Richard’s Trac code: irccat-listener-trac-plugin

As for the title of this post: The bot in our development channel is called overlord (with a lowercase ‘o’).

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