IRC bots and announcements

I am still in some IRC channels where it would make sense to have announces from work related stuff, eg:

• Nagios monitoring alerts.
• Subversion commit messages. And other post/pre-commit hooks.

In an ONLamp article about subversion and traq on FreeBSD, there is also an example with a irc announce using RSS feeds, which is implemented with http://supybot.com/. This seems interesting, maybe it is useful for my other needs, I will have to check it out.

On top of the Nagios alert messages, it would be nice to be able to send a query from an IRC bot to the Nagios service to get current state of a service monitor.