IRC Logger 2 History

The first version of the IRC logger 2 was a python port by François Beerten of the irclogger made by Colas Nahaboo. Colas started with the bot made by Sean B. Palmer. That bot uses the ircAsync module by Dan Connolly.

Due to different design goals, some features appeared and others disappeared during the port. A bit of care was taken to make the bot more useable on the wild and dangerous Internet. So, for example, it's not possible for everybody to disable the logging bot on a channel.

Primary design goals of IRC logger 2:

• Usable on Internet
• Reliable
• Quiet

To fix weaknesses of the original port, the bot and the web frontend have been completely rewritten. They no longer use code from the original sofware.

Features

Standard common features:

• Browsable logs
• Searchable logs

New features compared to the original bot :

• aggressive hiding of email addresses
• written fully in python (but as a user you probably don't care :))
• slightly better security
• bot runs as a deamon. Init-style control of the deamon (start, stop and restart).
• search in a timespan
• and many more

Features in the original bot which have been removed :

• Full control via irc of the bot (activation and deactivation of the bot by anybody)
• Password protection of a channel log (anybody could lock everybody else out)
• regular expressions in searches, agrep
• no idle comments in the middle of the logs
• twiki format (could come back)