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+# infrastructure-commitbot
+ASF Commit Bot for IRC
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+## What does this do?
+This is a simple IRC bot for displaying commit activity on IRC for committers and users to make use of.
+It uses [`config.yaml`](config.yaml) for managing which channels to join and which tags to subscribe to.
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+If you have a channel or commit subscription that needs added, please make a PR.
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+The service runs on our ASFBot VM as a "pipservice" (think of it as a Python app) and refreshes when 
+the config changes.
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+Any questions? Feel free to ask us on users@infra.apache.org then!