Fwd: IRC bot integration with Ask Ubuntu

[Alan Bell]

interesting suggestions from Jorge, not sure we would want that kind of 
thing in the main #ubuntu channel, but for topic channels like 
#ubuntu-juju it sounds like it might be an interesting feature.

Alan.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	IRC bot integration with Ask Ubuntu
Date: 	Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:08:21 -0500
From: 	Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com>
To: 	Alan Bell <alanbell at ubuntu.com>
CC: 	Marco Ceppi <marco.ceppi.use at gmail.com>



Hi Alan,

I saw your post and wanted to ask you some questions:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2012-February/001490.html

At UDS we had a session on how better to integrate Ask Ubuntu with
existing resources. One of those ideas was to add some features to the
bot that we think people might like. (I've CCed in Marco Ceppi, one of
the community moderators who is familiar with the Stack Exchange API
and stuff).

- We think it'd be cool if a team can subscribe a tag on Ask Ubuntu to
an IRC channel. So for example, every time there's a question tagged
"juju" the bot would post the question in #juju. Basically like a real
time feed of incoming questions. Obviously this could get out of hand,
so maybe make it configurable so that the bot only sends in a question
that has X amount of upvotes, this will let a team decide on what kind
of threshold they can have.

- Sometimes users post bounties on their question, which is like extra
credit points, here's the current list:
http://askubuntu.com/?tab=featured

These don't come up too often, but an idea we had was when someone
bounties a question it would post it on #ubuntu to give the question
more visibility, and the people in the channel get an opportunity to
get a bonus question. Right now the twitter feed sort of does this on
certain questions if they're popular, and I think it'd be cool to
basically do the same thing but on IRC too.

Thoughts?

-- 
Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
http://cloud.ubuntu.com

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