extract topics from IRC logs

[aspiers]

This is a bit trickier, but still worth attempting. Suggested output:

[IRC]
#crowbar on Freenode: 27 lines
#cloud on irc.suse.de: 43 lines

You could also include some or all of the lines in a format which would allow easy trimming, in order to condense them into a quick list of topics discussed.

This would need different backends for the different formats of IRC logs output by different IRC clients :-( Or maybe it would be better to write a single IRC log translation utility which can convert IRC logs from different formats into a single standard format, and then consume that, since that utility could be useful for other purposes and so would be worth leaving as a separate upstream mini-project.

[saschpe]

Indeed tricky, I would have to double-check available Python libs for that first. Otherwise it's gonna be a lot of work. Having plugins for very specific clients could be easier, i.e. quassel and irssi. I at least have demand for the former.

[aspiers]

I vote for weechat ;-) Yeah, I think a separate "IRC babelfish" project makes sense.