Posted by webchick on November 7, 2010 at 5:24pm
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| Project: | Bot |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
This happens to me a lot.
1. Work flies me over to $some_location for a week. Said location either doesn't have IRC or I'm too swamped to check in.
2. On the way back home, I get back on IRC at the airport to touch base with a few people.
3. The following happens:
<webchick> Hey, so-and-so. Did you get the chance to look at the such-and-such issue? I have exactly 3 minutes before my plane boards.
<Druplicon> Such-and-such said Hey webchick, can you look at foo-issue [link]
<Druplicon> So-and-so said Hey webchick, can you look at bar-issue [link]
<Druplicon> That-guy said Hey webchick, this guy's being a jerk, can you tell him to frig off? [link]
<Druplicon> Another-guy said Hey webchick, can you come to $foo event in $some_location?
<Druplicon> This-time-a-girl said Hey webchick, don't even think about releasing a new beta until you've fixed baz-issue [link]
...And so on. :P
It'd be nice to be able to say "Druplicon: stash messages 24 hours" or something so that it delayed telling me about them until I'm home and have a free 2 hours to look at all those links. Atm they just get lost.
Comments
#1
Couldn't you just repaste them to yourself, using "remind me in 24 hours that …"?
#2
Or even just cut and paste them into an email client and send them to yourself?
I get what you're saying, I do. But the cost of adding that functionality to the bot seems pretty high compared to its actual utility.
#3
Yes, I could totally do that. Just it's easier to do actions from IRC when I'm on IRC.
I'm not aware of any of the underlying code/schema for Bot module, so if it's a pain in the butt to do this, feel free to won't fix. Just figured I'd suggest it since I was thinking about it. :)