The #orbit channel & bot
#orbit is the project's live IRC channel. A bot named Pulsar stays connected there and does
two things.
Commit announcements
Every push to the project's git server, Pulsar posts a GitHub-style summary to #orbit, with mIRC colours:
[orbit] alice pushed 2 commits to main [+0/-0/±2] https://…/compare/abc…def
[orbit] alice 1a2b3c4 - Fix a thing
[orbit] alice 5d6e7f8 - Add another thing
Interactive commands
Talk to the bot in-channel or by PM (the ! prefix):
| Command | Reply |
|---|---|
!help |
List of commands. |
!about |
What Orbit is + link. |
!commits [n] |
The latest commits, live from the repo. |
!stats / !version |
Repo stats / current version. |
!source / !app |
Repo and live-client links. |
!account <nick> |
Whether a nick is a registered account. |
!uptime / !ping |
Bot status. |
The bot is a Django management command, so !account reads the real account database. Join it from
the client: open #orbit.