gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/doc/project_services/irker.md

Irker IRC Gateway

GitLab provides a way to push update messages to an Irker server. When configured, pushes to a project will trigger the service to send data directly to the Irker server.

See the project homepage for further info: http://www.catb.org/esr/irker/

Needed setup

You will first need an Irker daemon. You can download the Irker code from its gitorious repository on https://gitorious.org/irker: git clone git@gitorious.org:irker/irker.git. Once you have downloaded the code, you can run the python script named irkerd. This script is the gateway script, it acts both as an IRC client, for sending messages to an IRC server obviously, and as a TCP server, for receiving messages from the GitLab service.

If the Irker server runs on the same machine, you are done. If not, you will need to follow the firsts steps of the next section.

Optional setup

In the app/models/project_services/irker_service.rb file, you can modify some options in the initialize_settings method:

• server_ip (defaults to localhost): the server IP address where the irkerd daemon runs;
• server_port (defaults to 6659): the server port of the irkerd daemon;
• max_channels (defaults to 3): the maximum number of recipients the client is authorized to join, per project;
• default_irc_uri (no default) : if this option is set, it has to be in the format irc[s]://domain.name and will be prepend to each and every channel provided by the user which is not a full URI.

If the Irker server and the GitLab application do not run on the same host, you will need to setup at least the server_ip option.

Note on Irker recipients

Irker accepts channel names of the form chan and #chan, both for the #chan channel. If you want to send messages in query, you will need to add ,isnick avec the channel name, in this form: Aorimn,isnick. In this latter case, Aorimn is treated as a nick and no more as a channel name.

Irker can also join password-protected channels. Users need to append ?key=thesecretpassword to the chan name.