In order to further the collaboration during development and bug fixing, we've created an IRC channel. WebGUI's IRC channel is:  irc://irc.freenode.net#webgui

The channel is for people to chat real time about development problems or ideas.  This is not a substitute for the dev mailing list, but rather a tool to enhance communication while development and bug fixing is being worked on.

As usual concerning WebGUI development, this is for people who are working on WebGUI itself, either modifying the core code or writing wobject/asset code in perl (ok, and maybe macros), not for people who are working on websites *using* WebGUI.

If you are new to IRC, that's ok.  There are many resources on the web to help you get acquainted with its use. If you intend to hang out for a while, remember to register your nick as well. If you need help, ask in the channel, otherwise Freenode's FAQ is a good place to start.

We've also included a list of clients that can be used to join.

Windows Based Clients

• Visual IRC
  
• mIRC
• Pirch
• Besirc
• X-Chat (a freely built version of X-Chat is also available)

Mac OSX Based Clients

• Snak
  
• Colloquy
• Conversation

Linux Based Clients

• X-Chat
• Ghoti
• Relay-IRC
• Gaim (now Pidgin, and it works quite good with windows too)

Browser-based IRC Cients

• http://www.webgui.org/webgui/chat.html (java)

  This will deliver you inside the #webgui channel with a nick in the format wgGuestXX, where the Xs are random numbers.
  
  Once there, it's suggested that you type "/nick yourNickName" to get a meaningful nickname, specially if you intend to hang out for a bit.

• http://www.mibbit.com/ (ajax)
  • Choose a Nickname
  • Choose Freenode.net as the Server
  • Enter #webgui for the channel
  • Press the connect button
• http://java.freenode.net/index.php?channel=webgui (java)
  • Choose a Nickname
  • Press the connect button

You can join the webgui channel from one of 2 different networks.  You can either join from irc.freenode.net or from EFNet.  Then join #webgui.  Because of some linking that has been setup, you can send and receive messages from one network and it will automatically distribute that to the other network.  So, either network will work.

Channel Amenities

Pastebins

Don't flood the channel by pasting lots of lines of code or from your logs. Instead, use one of these pastebins and post the resulting URL on #webgui:

• http://webgui.pastebin.com/
• http://sial.org/pbot/perl
• http://erxz.com/pb
• http://p3m.org/pfn/perl

Imagebins

If you want to share a screenshot or any random image with the channel, use one of these imagebins and post the resulting URL on #webgui:

• http://imagebin.org/
• http://imagebin.ca/
• http://www.imagebin.eu/

Channel bots

• perlbot
  

  < perlbot> (fact) : tell (who) about (what) : (what) > (who) : learn (what) as (info) : relearn (fact) as (info) : phone (phone #) : shorten (url) : shorten it : search (keyword) : cpan (module) : docs (module) : perldoc -f (function) : jargon (term) : math (expr): fortune : flip : host (type) (record) : rot13 (text) : roll (die) : tempconv (temp) : scramble (foo) : 8ball (question) : slap (who) : diss (who) : top/bottom (number) karma : geoip (ip)

• CIA
  
  • Keeps the channel aware of activity in the SVN repository:
    

    < CIA-20> WebGUI: graham * r5418 /WebGUI/ (lib/WebGUI/Macro/AdminToggle.pm docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt): fix: don't show Admin mode toggle when not in adminModeSubnets
    < CIA-20> WebGUI: graham * r5419 /WebGUI/ (docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt lib/WebGUI/Content/Setup.pm): fix regression: Site starter style displays incorrectly in IE
    

• GooeyOfSteel
  • Keeps the channel aware of activity in WebGUI.org's community wiki (this you are reading):
    

    < GooeyOfSteel> Wiki: WebGUI Statistics - Created on 2/6/2008 10:43 pm by knowmad  http://www.webgui.org/community-wiki/webgui-statistics
    

  • Reports the Server HTTP header returned in a request to a given server, may help troubleshooting problems being discussed in the channel:
    

    < user> GooeyOfSteel: check www.example.com
    < GooeyOfSteel> www.example.com Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) WebGUI/7.5.2 mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.7i mod_apreq2-20051231/2.5.7 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8

  • Sometimes (randomly) GooeyOfSteel can pose as a sounding board (when Eliza chatbot mode is enabled).

Past Logs 

An archive of the channel logs is kindly offered by xdanger (Jukka Raimovaara) at http://mentalhouse.net/irc/logs/webgui/