| 4 May 2024 |
|  SomeoneSerge (utc+3) changed their display name from SomeoneSerge (is taking time off and doesn't want to hear about it) to SomeoneSerge (Way down Hadestown). | 21:03:42 |
| 5 May 2024 |
 eyJhb | Hvae there been discussions on getting the nixbot back? https://github.com/infinisil/nixbot/ , could be quite useful in #users:nixos.org , to do basic evals, link to the wiki quick, commom questions, etc. | 11:32:04 |
 K900 | Someone needs to port it to Matrix | 11:35:16 |
| K900 | But it would be nice to have yeah | 11:35:23 |
| eyJhb |
Nixbot is an IRC bot supporting Nix-related functionality. It’s using a RabbitMQ broker maintained by @grahamc for sending messages via the {^_^} nick on freenode (and therefore can’t run on its own currently).
I'm quite sure it ran for some time here in Matirx, but then it was removed.
| 11:36:10 |
| eyJhb | It seems like it could simplify a lot of help. Showing eval, boilerplate text for the same questions, linking to the wiki easily (maybe for debug steps), etc. etc. | 11:37:03 |
| eyJhb | I'll try to ask infinisil how they feel about it. :) | 11:37:45 |
 infinisil | Yeah the RabbitMQ stuff was always a pain! | 11:41:14 |
| infinisil | Simpler is better imo :D | 11:41:26 |
| eyJhb | But it's quite a nice setup to delegate it over something like MQTT, so that multiple integrations could easily be made, without giving access to the bot account. But I'm not actually sure how it's best done in Matrix. | 11:45:00 |
| eyJhb | Anyways, I just wanted to bring it up, if I have the energy/time I might look into it. Not sure if it would be the nixbot code, or something else. My Haskell experience is 0. | 11:45:28 |
| eyJhb | (and if anyone else wants to take it up, feel free as well!) | 11:45:40 |
| 6 May 2024 |
|  Charles changed their display name from Charles ⚡️ to Charles. | 17:01:08 |
| 7 May 2024 |
|  teutat3s joined the room. | 14:52:19 |
| teutat3s | Forwarding this request here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-resources-for-spanish-speakers/44924
Hi! I know we are undergoing a transition now, but I couldn’t help but notice there’s no Matrix room for Spanish speakers in the international channel
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Is it possible to request the creation of a room? HispaNix?
| 14:53:57 |
 fgaz | In reply to @eyjhb:eyjhb.dk
Hvae there been discussions on getting the nixbot back? https://github.com/infinisil/nixbot/ , could be quite useful in #users:nixos.org , to do basic evals, link to the wiki quick, commom questions, etc. Seems doable, there's a matrix client library on hackage | 15:37:41 |
| fgaz | Relatedly, I just wrote a package search bot: Nix search bot
As far as I can see nixbot did not have this functionality. Is this something that can be useful in #users:nixos.org?
| 15:41:27 |
| K900 | Yes | 15:55:20 |
|  David Sánchez joined the room. | 18:59:35 |
| fgaz | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
Yes It appears I don't have the permission to invite it | 20:18:13 |
| 8 May 2024 |
|  Federico Damián Schonborn joined the room. | 12:07:54 |
| 9 May 2024 |
| SomeoneSerge (utc+3) changed their display name from SomeoneSerge (Way down Hadestown) to SomeoneSerge (UTC+3). | 17:11:25 |
| 11 May 2024 |
| eyJhb | I'm slowly but surely working on a stupid simple bot, that just returns the output of whatever script you point X command at. So it makes the codebase VERY simple, and EASY to extend from just changing the nix config. The backbone of it is coded in Golang using the Mautrix SDK, which I think is one of the best SDKs out there. :) | 08:49:52 |
| eyJhb | 
Download image.png | 15:48:03 |
| eyJhb | So far it has this functionality. Works pretty well :) It's nice that it can eval nix expressions, as well as the ability to easily add new "commands", or rather, funktions to it. Such as linking to the wiki page, or other basic information that should be conveyed easily. | 15:49:11 |
 hexa | cool | 17:02:24 |
| eyJhb | @hexa is it OK if I PM you some time to discuss a potential bot in the space? :) | 17:07:12 |
| hexa | uh yeah, but am I the final authority on that? 😄 | 17:09:40 |
| eyJhb | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
uh yeah, but am I the final authority on that? 😄 No, but you have more than me! And maybe can see if it even makes sense :D | 17:11:53 |
| eyJhb | I'm not sure who the authority actually is. I don't want to burden infra further as well... :D | 17:12:17 |
