1 <h1>irclogs2</h1>

     2     <p>

     3         <strong>irclogs2</strong> is a web-based IRC log viewer.

     4     </p>

     5 

     6     <p>

     7         Visit the site at <a href="http://irclogs.qmsk.net/">irclogs.qmsk.net</a>.

     8     </p>

     9 

    10 <h2>History</h2>

    11     <p>

    12         Many years ago, in Feburary 2006, I started publically logging some IRC channels I was on to the web. As part of

    13         this, I started writing a PHP script to make viewing said logs slightly nicer than just raw plaintext files. This

    14         PHP script worked quite succesfully, and had a number of frequent users.

    15     </p>

    16     <p>

    17         Unfortunately, development of that PHP script kind of stopped, and over the following years, I made some unsuccesful

    18         attempts to write a new version of these logs. <a href="http://spbot2.marttila.de/">SpBotII</a> ended up a

    19         failure (probably due to me concentrating on the cool bits first, before actually taking care to write something

    20         that worked and did what it needed to).

    21     </p>

    22     <p>

    23         Now in early Feburary 2008, I finally managed to succesfully re-start my development of Python web code (by

    24         writing <a href="/projects/qmsk.web">qmsk.web</a>), and I quickly started work on a replacement for the origional

    25         now-three-years-old PHP logs. Born was <strong>irclogs2</strong>.

    26     </p>        

    27 

    28 <h2>Features</h2>

    29     <p>

    30         The new irclogs2 supports everything that the old PHP irclogs did, but is better in every way.

    31     </p>

    32 

    33     <ul>

    34         <li>Supports logs stored in the default Irssi theme, one file per day</li>

    35         <li>Multiple channels</li>

    36         <li>Per-user preferences, stored as cookies, or given as query string arguments in the URL</li>

    37         <li>Per-user timezone preference, with full support for said timezones in all date-time handling</li>

    38         <li>Efficient retrieval of the latest N log lines for a given channel</li>

    39         <li>HTML calendar for browsing logs by date</li>

    40         <li>Indexed fulltext search using <a href="http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/">Hyper Estraier</a></li>

    41         <li>Flexible pagination for log viewer and search results</li>

    42         <li>Timezone-agnostic links to specific log lines</li>

    43         <li>Configureable formatter/font/date-time format etc.</li>

    44         <li>Support for rendering displayed lines as HTML, plaintext, PNG, RSS</li>

    45         <li>Pretty URLS :)</li>

    46         <li>Valid, visually uncluttered XHTML/CSS design using Mako templates</li>

    47         <li>Works as a WSGI application</li>

    48     </ul>

    49 

    50 <h2>Support</h2>

    51     <p>

    52         If you have questions about this project, please don't hesitate to <a href="/about">contact me</a>.

    53     </p>

    54 

    55     <p>

    56         There is also a issue tracker available at <a href="http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac/query">the project Trac</a>.

    57     </p>

    58 

    59 <h2>Development</h2>

    60     <p>

    61         The web code is based on <a href="/projects/qmsk.web">qmsk.web</a>. Mercurial repository is available at 

    62         <a href="http://hg.qmsk.net/irclogs2">http://hg.qmsk.net/irclogs2</a>, project Trac at 

    63         <a href="http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac">http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac</a>.

    64     </p>

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