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At Bump we tried Campfire, but ended up using IRC (and use an open source IRC bot, https://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot/src https://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot/s

At Bump we tried Campfire, but ended up using IRC (and use an open source IRC bot, https://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot/src https://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot/src). I'm curious why you decided to go with Campfire instead of IRC.

technoweenie 15y ago
Hubot supports IRC too (though probably not as well, we only hop in when Campfire goes down). We depend on having a nice, customizable native Campfire client. We keep a custom js script in DropBox that Propane (http://propaneapp.com/ http://propaneapp.com/) loads on startup. We've been able to modify the UI to show avatars, highlight successful/failed builds in Git push notifications, etc. CF also gives us a few other nice features, like offline transcripts with search, and STARS. Surely, you can do all this with IRC... and there are other chat apps that people like too. We're hoping that people add support for them to Hubot.
- dabeeeenster 15y ago
  There's nothing in the docs to explain how to configure IRC server address/password etc?
  - dannytatom 15y ago
    Seems like it's done by env variables, same way it's setup for Campfire: https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/src/hubot/irc.coffee#L17-19 https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/src/hubot/irc.co...
    - dabeeeenster 15y ago
      Ah great thanks. Shame there's no IRC server password support just yet it seems...
      - xpaulbettsx 15y ago
        It's on its way, will probably finish it up this week
xnxn 15y ago
(note: I'm not a githubber) It has some web-oriented features like auto-linkification, condensing long responses, embedding of images, tweets, videos... It's better to think of Campfire as a client than a protocol; there's nothing it doesn't do that a sufficiently advanced IRC client + logging bot combo can't replicate. I prefer the latter, myself, but I can see the value it adds for many.
- willbmoss 15y ago
  Agreed, I should have clarified. We don't just use IRC, but IRC along with other tools to handle pasting text and file uploads. I think what has always bothered me about Campfire (which I'm sure can be solved) is that it's not easy to do thing from the command line. I want to be able to pipe the output of git diff to my pastebin, or upload a log file from a remote machine.

technoweenie 15y ago

Hubot supports IRC too (though probably not as well, we only hop in when Campfire goes down). We depend on having a nice, customizable native Campfire client. We keep a custom js script in DropBox that Propane (http://propaneapp.com/ http://propaneapp.com/) loads on startup. We've been able to modify the UI to show avatars, highlight successful/failed builds in Git push notifications, etc. CF also gives us a few other nice features, like offline transcripts with search, and STARS. Surely, you can do all this with IRC... and there are other chat apps that people like too. We're hoping that people add support for them to Hubot.

dabeeeenster 15y ago
There's nothing in the docs to explain how to configure IRC server address/password etc?
- dannytatom 15y ago
  Seems like it's done by env variables, same way it's setup for Campfire: https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/src/hubot/irc.coffee#L17-19 https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/src/hubot/irc.co...
  - dabeeeenster 15y ago
    Ah great thanks. Shame there's no IRC server password support just yet it seems...
    - xpaulbettsx 15y ago
      It's on its way, will probably finish it up this week

xnxn 15y ago

(note: I'm not a githubber) It has some web-oriented features like auto-linkification, condensing long responses, embedding of images, tweets, videos... It's better to think of Campfire as a client than a protocol; there's nothing it doesn't do that a sufficiently advanced IRC client + logging bot combo can't replicate. I prefer the latter, myself, but I can see the value it adds for many.

willbmoss 15y ago
Agreed, I should have clarified. We don't just use IRC, but IRC along with other tools to handle pasting text and file uploads. I think what has always bothered me about Campfire (which I'm sure can be solved) is that it's not easy to do thing from the command line. I want to be able to pipe the output of git diff to my pastebin, or upload a log file from a remote machine.