Update node-irc under slack-irc-bridge

[darkk]

Used docker container seems to have old node-irc module that has a bug disrespecting messageSplit that was fixed in martynsmith/node-irc#385.

It leads to messages truncated in the middle of word & loosing ~20 symbols while relaying large message from slack to IRC. That's quite annoying :(

Also, Slack bot messages likely do not propagate to IRC anymore, see hellais fork for the feature.

• messageSplit
• Slack bot -> IRC (for monitoring) (2018-08-30: we don't rely on IRC logs of #ooni-bots anymore)

[hellais]

Another neat feature to add to the slack bot, is maybe the ability to relay messages using a custom nick depending on the users slack handle.

I believe it's possible to send messages to an IRC channel without joining it, but I am not sure if you can set the nick without issuing a /nick command. If it is possible we could support sending /msg to the #ooni- channels with the name $USERNAME-slack, making the IRC usability a bit better.

[darkk]

I am not sure if you can set the nick without issuing a /nick command

AFAIK, you can't. Outgoing PRIVMSG has no nickname.

I use weechat with gateway_rename.scm plugin and plugins.var.guile.gateway_rename.gateways = "(OFTC * slacktopus <NICK>) setting, it works for me, but it's not a generic solution.

[hellais]

This is done