#perl6 IRC channel

Much real-time discussion happens on our IRC channel, #perl6 or irc.freenode.net.

We try to be very nice to newcomers, so feel free to join us, and ask any Perl 6 questions you might have.

#perl6

We discuss questions about Perl 6, how to install a compiler, proposals for small enhancements to the specification, ideas for new modules - you name it.

If you don't have an IRC client installed, you can use your browser to connect to IRC.

If you missed an interesting discussion on #perl6 - don't worry, there are public logs available. These logs also turn many Perl 6 specific abbreviations into links, or explain them when you hover with the mouse over them. A different logging facility can be found on colabti.org.

Bots

A variety of IRC bots make our life easier, here's a short explanation of what they do - courtesy by frettled.

dalek

Announces commits (mainly to rakudo, nqp-rx and the Perl 6 book

hugme

Hugs users, or adds them as collaborators to github projects.

lambdabot

Keeps track of karma ("nick++" adds one to nick's karma score, "nick--" subtracts one). Also generally annoys people.

lisppaste3

Announces entries pasted to a paste binwhich is where we paste code and other stuff, so that we avoid spamming the channel too much, and also don't have to worry about creating our own temporary web pages)

mubot

Also tracks karma, attempting to be slightly less annoying than lambdabot. mubot is clever enough to recognize that your nick may vary slightly from time to time and channel to channel. mubot is written in Perl 6!

p6eval

Perl 6 code evaluation bot. We use this for live testing of code that may be of interest to others; it chats back to the channel. perl6: my $a; will result in a test against several Perl 6 compilers (elf, mildew, mildew-js, pugs, rakudo, sprixel), nqp: say('foo') tests nqp-rx, std: my $a will parse the expression with STD.pm.

phenny

Our secretary. Sample usage:

phenny, tell frettled to stay tuned

phenny will then let frettled know when he becomes active on the channel again.

pointme

Provides links to projects tracked by proto. Example usage:

 
<carlin> pointme: rssbot
<pointme> carlins's rssbot is at
    http://github.com/carlins/rssbot

pointme is written in Perl 6!

pugs_svn

Tracks commits to the pugs repository, most of which are changes to the test suite and spec.

zaslon

Tracks blog posts from a certain group of bloggers. Zaslon is written in Perl 6!