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| Description | A bot for bridging IRC and other chat platform channels |
| Keywords | irc, golang |
| Maintainer(s) | BryanDavis (View all) |
| Source code | https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Admin log | Tools.bridgebot/SAL |
Bridgebot is a deployment of the FLOSS matterbridge software. It can be used to relay messages between multiple different chat systems. The current deployment in Toolforge is bridging various Wikimedia related Freenode IRC channels with similarly themed Telegram chats and channels.
Maintenance
The bot runs from Toolforge under the "bridgebot" account as a kubernetes pod.
# TODO: document creating Deployment
# TODO: document quick restart (pod delete)
# TODO: document "full" restart (Deployment delete; Deployment create)
# TODO: document upgrading the golang binary
Joining a new channel
Maintainers of the tool can configure the bot to join a new channel;
$ ssh login.tools.wmflabs.org
$ become bridgebot
$ vim matterbridge.toml
:# Add a new "[[gateway]]" section defining the gateway name and the channels to bridge
$ kubectl delete po/$(kubectl get pods | grep Running | awk '{print $1}')