[17:06] <AlanBell> so, meetingology and topic changes and such
[17:07] <AlanBell> I am interested in feedback on the talkativeness of the bot
[17:08] <AlanBell> in general I think it should not talk in channel unless it has something useful to say, such as the outcome of a vote
[17:08] <AlanBell> it should acknowledge commands with private messages, and change topic with /topic if it can
[17:09] <AlanBell> one thing I will do is "#startmeeting force"
[17:09] <AlanBell> which will end a running meeting if someone forgot to end it
[17:10] <Pici> Good idea.
[17:11] <charlie-tca> +1
[17:11] <ubot4> Factoid '1' not found
[17:12] <charlie-tca> huh?
[17:12] <charlie-tca> plus is a factoid now?
[17:12] <AlanBell> +ping
[17:12] <ubot4> another contentless ping... sigh...
[17:12] <Pici> heh
[17:13] <charlie-tca> I didn't mean to do that, really :)
[17:14] <charlie-tca> I think having the bot respond to commands in a private message would be a good way to handle things.
[17:16] <AlanBell> so /msg charlie-tca I got your link to http://foo.com
[17:16] <charlie-tca> oh, and meetingbot does not cause a topic change to be visible. The only visible change is the bot response that it changed the topic. It is not really changing the channel topic.
[17:16] <charlie-tca> yes, AlanBell
[17:16] <charlie-tca> I think that would be good
[17:17] <AlanBell> what I wanted to do with the topic was attempt to change /topic and only if that failed (not enough rights) to announce in channel
[17:18] <AlanBell> the chair has just said #topic bar in channel, no need to repeat it
[17:18] <AlanBell> but setting the /topic means it is there for people joining halfway through the meeting
[17:19] <charlie-tca> so, maybe it is changing it but not echoing the entire topic change?
[17:20] <charlie-tca> I am using weechat, and every time a topic changes, I get both old topic and new topic, but not when the meeting bot does it
[17:21] <m4v> charlie-tca: that's a weechat's setting afaik, I turned it off myself
[17:22] <charlie-tca> right, but you don't get that old topic/new topic when meetingology changes the topics
[17:23] <m4v> that's odd I don't think the bot changes topic in a different way that we do
[17:24] <charlie-tca> so, the the topic in -meeting really becomes whatever the current agenda topic is named as?
[17:24] <Pici> Yes.
[17:25] <charlie-tca> and someone joining a meeting might see TOPIC:  odds and ends
[17:25] <charlie-tca> and that is all they get at that time
[17:25] <AlanBell> that is the idea, yes
[17:25] <Pici> If thats how their client displays it to them.
[17:25] <AlanBell> I was going to add a meeting title command
[17:26] <AlanBell> so it would say "QA Meeting: odds and ends"
[17:27] <charlie-tca> That would probably be better. Joining a channel whose sole topic is "Odds & Ends" doesn't say much about it
[17:28] <charlie-tca> That doesn't even say there is a meeting in progress