Daniel Kinzler wrote an excellent piece on why it makes sense to make RC available over IRC. In his blog post, he also describes some ideas, and why he cannot be the one to code it up.
Just so that this does not only gather dust on his blog, I'm adding this feature request here.
While we're at it, I guess that Watchlist over XMPP would also be interesting...
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://brightbyte.de/page/RecentChanges_via_Jabber