W3C IRC meeting logs guide

short guide for using W3C irc to create meeting logs
published:
by Harshvardhan J. Pandit
is part of: web development
DPVCG meeting w3c

This guide is written for the DPVCG meeting minute generation, but should also be useful for other CG/WG taking minutes using W3C tools.

links

commands

/invite rrsagent #dpvcg
# /invite ghurlbot
# replace gb with ghurlbot in minutes for CSS
/invite gb

Scribe: harsh

repo: w3c/dpv
# not required in repeats
gb, harsh is coolharsh55

Meeting: DPVCG Meeting Call
Chair: harsh
Present: people
present+: more people
Regrets: otherpeople
Date: DD MMM YYYY
Agenda: url on public mailing list

Meeting minutes: https://w3id.org/dpv/meetings
purl for this meeting: https://w3id.org/dpv/meetings/meeting-2023-XX-XX

Topic: xx
Subtopic: yy

ACTION: xx
ISSUE: xx
RESOLVED: xx

rrsagent, publish minutes v2
rrsagent, set logs world-visible
rrsagent, bye

formatting

Notation Effect
_underlined_ underlined
/italic/ italic
*bold* bold
`monospace` monospace
Input Output
<- ←
<-- ⟵
<= ⇐
<== ⟸
==> ⟹
=> ⇒
--> ⟶
->→
:-) ☺
;-) 😉︎
:-( ☹
:-/ 😕︎
,-) 😜︎
\o/ 🙌︎

GitHub bot commands

  • Issue: Foo is undefined - create a new issue
  • action harsh: do something - due in 2 weeks
  • close #15 - close issue
  • reopen #15 - reopen issue
  • ghurlbot, list open issues with label foo - Instead of list, you can also say find, look up, get, search, search for. Using for me will return issues assigned to me or user.
  • ghurlbot, delay 20 - don't look up issues again until 20 lines later

scribe config

command: perl scribe.perl [options] < log.txt > minutes.html

options:

  • -implicitContinuations - continue conversation over multiple lines without ...; to still add general lines to the log use (\) backslash at the start of the line
  • -final - make minutes final rather than draft
  • -emphasis - convert ASCII combinations into symbols and formatting