[Dev] bots

[Ted Leung]

Could you summarize some of the useful features of opus for us?

On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:31 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> I took a look at some of the more common bots that I've seen on 
> different projects and so far the mozilla ones really stand out:
>
> mozbot 	- a very flexible bot with loadable modules: infobot, bug 
> info, tinderbox status, sheriff info, etc
> 		  written in perl by hixie and the source is in the mozilla cvs 
> respository in the webtools/mozbot module
> bzbot 	- a basic bot whose only purpose it seems is to retrieve 
> bugzilla queries relating to the status of a product target
> 		  written in perl by justdave and the source can be found at 
> http://www.justdave.net/bzbot.tar.gz
> cia		- a server and bot setup that allows commit information to be 
> tracked on an irc channel and also posted to a web page
> 		  written in python (twisted) - information can be found at 
> http://cia.navi.cx/
>
> mozbot was very easy to setup and has a number of admin features that 
> makes it a breeze to run and maintain.  The only tricky perl module 
> needed was LibXML.  If you want to test it, I have one running in 
> #chandler as the nick 'opus'.
>
> bzbot took much more time to configure because of many hard-coded 
> references.  It is also chock-full of bugzilla/mozilla constants 
> relating to their product/target setup.  I did manage to get a version 
> of it running and you can test it in #chandler using the nick 'bzbot'.
>
> cia consists of either a svn or cvs post-commit script that then sends 
> a status message to the irc.freenode.net #commit channel bots.
>
> Once I saw the flexibility that mozbot has I basically stopped looking 
> for other examples - it's that good.
>
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