NAME

App::TimeTracker::Command::Post2IRC - App::TimeTracker plugin for posting to IRC

VERSION

version 2.020

DESCRIPTION

We use an internal IRC channel for internal communication. And we all want (need) to know what other team members are currently doing. This plugin helps us making sharing this information easy.

After running some commands, this plugin prepares a short message and sends it (together with an authentification token) to a small webserver-cum-irc-bot (Bot::FromHTTP, not yet on CPAN, but basically just a slightly customized/enhanced pastebin).

The messages is transfered as a GET-Request like this:

http://yourserver/?message=some message&token=a58875d576e8c09a...

CONFIGURATION

plugins

add Post2IRC to your list of plugins

post2irc

add a hash named post2irc, containing the following keys:

host

The hostname of the server Bot::FromHTTP is running on. Might also contain a special port number (http://ircbox.vpn.yourcompany.com:9090)

secret

A shared secret used to calculate the authentification token. The token is calculated like this:

my $token = Digest::SHA::sha1_hex($message, $secret);

NEW COMMANDS

none

CHANGES TO OTHER COMMANDS

start, stop, continue

After running the respective command, a message is sent to the webservice that will afterwards post the message to IRC.

New Options

--irc_quiet

~/perl/Your-Project$ tracker start --irc_quiet

Do not post this action to IRC.

AUTHOR

Thomas Klausner <domm@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Thomas Klausner.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.