--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,8 +9,13 @@ script:
   - tox -e py27,py27-coveralls
 
 # currently cannot customise per user fork, see:
 # https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1094
 notifications:
   irc: "irc.mozilla.org#releng"
   on_success: always
   on_failure: always
+  template:
+    - "%{repository}#%{build_number} (%{branch} - %{commit} : %{author}): %{message}"
+    - "Change view : %{compare_url}"
+    - "Build details : %{build_url}"
+    - "Commit message : %{commit_message}"

--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
 # buildbotcustom
 This repository contains customisations of buildbot 0.8.2 used by Mozilla Release Engineering.
 
-This repository is a downstream read-only copy of:
-https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbotcustom/
+This repository is a downstream read-only copy of
+https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbotcustom/.
 
 To submit a patch, please create a bug on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ under
 Product: Release Engineering, Component: Tools.
 
 To run tests:
 ```
 pip install tox
 tox
 ```
+
+Please also see:
+* https://github.com/mozilla/build-buildbot-configs/
+* https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot/ (not mirrored to github)