Re: My understanding of minutes, meetings, rrsagent

I think RRSAgent uses a simple algorithm to generate the URL in the date space based upon the IRC channel name and the current date. Your example shows how that works.

> On 16 Jan 2018, at 23:24, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> 
> DAVE RAGGETT - if you can find someone who can confirm my guess here
> about how the Meetings page is generated and determines if wiki pages
> end up being displayed here, that would be very helpful!
> 
> ==RRSagent [1]
> 
> There is a page that describes rrsagent, but that fails to say WHERE
> minutes are stored. I'm making a guess about some details here, but I
> think it holds:
> 
> - rrsagent works off of IRC and captures the IRC discussion in a log.
> - the minutes that are generated take the form of:
>    https://www.w3.org/{date in form=yyyy/mm/dd}-{IRC channel}-minutes
>   e.g. https://www.w3.org/2018/01/09-dxwg-minutes
> 
> Here is the IRC log where I experimented with this:
> [15:08] == kcoyle [~kcoyle@public.cloak] has joined #dxwg-test
> [15:08] == RRSAgent [rrsagent@public.cloak] has joined #dxwg-test
> [15:08] <RRSAgent> logging to https://www.w3.org/2018/01/16-dxwg-test-irc
> [15:08] <@kcoyle> rrsagent, make logs public
> [15:08] <RRSAgent> I have made the request, kcoyle
> [15:08] <@kcoyle> here are some lines
> [15:08] <@kcoyle> here are some more lines
> [15:08] <@kcoyle> rrsagent, generate minutes
> [15:08] <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate
> https://www.w3.org/2018/01/16-dxwg-test-minutes.html kcoyle
> 
> The minutes could be prettier with rrsagent commands setting the group
> and topic. See the documentation.
> 
> - to use RRSagent, when you first log onto IRC type:
>  /invite rrsagent #channel
> - then make sure the logs are public
>  rrsagent, make logs public
>  (minutes will also be public)
> - to general minutes
>  rrsagent, create minutes
> 
> To use q?+- and other commands you need Zakim [2]
>   /invite Zakim #channel
> 
> == Meetings page, minutes
> 
> The meetings page section with meetings is generated "on the fly" from
> this wiki temkplate:
> 
> {{#ask: [[Category:Meeting]]
> | ?Date
> | ?Subject
> | ?Minutes
> | ?Scribe
> | sort=Date
> | order=ASC
> | offset=10
> | limit=40
> | format=broadtable
> }}
> 
> == Meeting agenda pages
> 
> The wiki page for a meeting starts with this:
> [[Category:Meeting]]
> 
> and ends:
> 
> ==Annotations==
> 
> * [[Type:: Telecon]]
> * [[Subject:: Define profile; sub-group meetings]]
> * [[Date::2018-01-16]]
> * [[Minutes:: https://www.w3.org/2018/01/16-dxwg-minutes]]
> * [[Scribe:: Jaroslav]]
> 
> The meeting agenda URL itself is:
> 
> https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Meetings:Telecon{date yyyy.mm.dd}
>  e.g. https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Meetings:Telecon2018.01.16
> 
> I cannot find any documentation on the generation of the meeting page. I
> note that the minutes for the F2F meetings do not appear on the meetings
> page, although the minutes exist. Therefore, there is something else
> that is at work here, and I need to experiment some more to see what
> makes the meeting agendas and minutes appear.
> 
> I did find that the meeting page has only recent meetings and this page
> has all of the meetings:
>  https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Category:Meeting
> This, too, is auto-generated, from the [[Category:Meeting]] wiki tag.
> That's a pretty standard wiki function.
> 
> kc
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/2002/03/RRSAgent
> [2[ https://www.w3.org/2001/12/zakim-irc-bot.html
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> Karen Coyle
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Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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