Hi,

As part of the Libera Chat migration, myself and some others worked on developing "ircservserv"[0], which allows you to mostly manage IRC channel ACLs and settings using Git. Basically think GitOps, but for IRC.

Instead of having to look up the various ChanServ and /mode commands each time, you make your change in a human readable TOML file, have CI validate it, and then deploy it. It also takes care of all the boring channel set up options like enabling global bans, giving permissions to Libera staff, etc.

Once initially set up, it's mostly self-service in that you can change your channel's configuration without needing intervention from the ircservserv maintainers.

The full documentation and examples are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Bots/ircservserv. If there's some functionality you'd like/need and it's missing, please file a bug in Phabricator.

Note that for now this should only be used for public channels. [1] tracks deploying an instance in production for private channels.

Big thanks to Majavah for co-maintaining it with me and Skizzerz for answering all my questions about the IRC/ChanServ protocols.

[0] what you end up with when you pick a name at 3am. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283492

-- Kunal