WAARTA

Notes on WAARTA Server setup.

Warrtaa is the latest gateway drug for IRC.  It gives a modern, web based, mobile friendly UI to tried and true IRC services.

We recently set one up at Red Hat.  It looks something like this:

A few hacks to get it working
 
Setting up a waartaa server for your IRC gateway is reasonable easy, but there are some kinks.

- If you don't have an elastic search server, make sure to turn off the elastic search settings, the first time around, is required if you want to be able to see your own messages.

- Also, I had to reload the sign in page once, when creating my account.

- For me, getting around a circular dependency was required.  I used the trick here:

https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router/issues/735

- If you have funny accounts or want to start over, you can easily run

meteor reset

To start over, this clears the Mongo database , user accounts, and so on.



For those interested in getting involved, I've created some github issues along these lines.

https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa/issues
 
Waartaa seems to have some momentum, and has alot of potential.  It natively has the type of graphics and UI, and searchability, which make it a close rival to hipchat, at least in terms of the presentation of text (it doesnt touch hipchat in terms of  images/links/github plugins , but that okay because it has IRC as a backend, which has a continuously growing set of utilities) Hopefully the community efforts around waartaa will ramp up and the IRC world will have a simple, go to web app to bridge dev and business communications.