Easy IRC notifications
Description
Current IRC "service" (Irker) is not easy to use, and user can't send notifications to IRC without meddling with an external service.
- Notifications should be triggered when something is pushed to a branch, or when there has been a merge request made to a branch.
- Notification should include a link to the changeset.
Use case: I'm looking into migrating a project from github, and I wouldn't be too happy about having to drop IRC notifications. Generally, paper-cuts don't make one happy.
In case I misunderstood something and this can be used without an external service, docs need to be improved, since that's what I understood from them.
Proposal
Add integrated in GitLab IRC notification service.
The minimal requirements should be:
- IRC server address
- IRC server port
- channel
- list of branches that trigger notification (if none specified, all branches trigger it)
The optional things:
- bot's name
- colored messages
- authentication
- perhaps notifications for issues being opened/closed ?
~"feature proposal"