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Woot, ya there is a bunch of nice features although I will admit after 
doing some plugins there is also a little things that are sort of what I 
would call oddities as well (but meh, nothing is perfect, ha).

Reviews up for a new project for all these (plugins and probably a main 
bot entrypoint/main):

- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/349046/
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/348998/

I'm thinking I'll just move over 
https://github.com/harlowja/gerritbot2/blob/master/plugins/gerritbot/gerritbot.py 
after that and we can work through some of the oddities to make that 
plugin map better on the existing gerritbot (which has it's own 
unique/special configuration yaml style) and then we can work through 
various other plugins at the same time (with meetbot being the 
complicated one) and then <profit!>

-Josh

David Moreau Simard wrote:
> FWIW I can vouch for the quality of Errbot, I've used it on several
> occasions and we're currently using it in the RDO community.
>
> A very useful feature that I like is the webserver hook integration.
> This allows the bot to essentially expose an endpoint and you can send
> things to it.
> For example, we have a sensu_event [1] endpoint and we have a sensu
> handler that sends events to it, the bot then sends an alert to our
> IRC channels.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/rdobot/blob/master/rdobot/plugins/sensu/errbot-sensu.py#L95
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Joshua Harlow<harlowja at fastmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I was thinking it might be useful to see what other folks think about
>> switching (or migrating all the current bots we have in openstack) to be
>> based on errbot plugins.
>>
>> Errbot @ http://errbot.io/en/latest/ takes a slightly different approach to
>> bots and treats each bot 'feature' as a plugin that can be activated and
>> deactivated with-in the context of the same bot (even doing so
>> dynamically/at runtime).
>>
>> It also allows for those that use slack (or other backend @
>> http://errbot.io/en/latest/features.html) to be able to 'seamlessly' use the
>> same plugins and just switching a tiny amount config to use a different 'bot
>> backend'.
>>
>> I've been experimenting with it more recently and have a gerritbot (sort of
>> equivalent) @ https://github.com/harlowja/gerritbot2 and also have been
>> working on a oslobot plugin @ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/343857/ and
>> during this exploration it has gotten me to think that we could move most of
>> the functionality of the various bots in openstack (patchbot, openstack -
>> really meetbot, gerritbot and others?) under the same umbrella (or at least
>> convert them into plugins that folks can run on IRC or if they want to run
>> them on some other backend that's cool to).
>>
>> The hardest one I can think would be meetbot, although the code @
>> https://github.com/openstack-infra/meetbot doesn't look impossible (or
>> really that hard to convert to an errbot plugin).
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> Any strong preference?
>>
>> I was also thinking that as a result we could then just have a single
>> 'openstack' bot and also turn on plugins like:
>>
>> - https://github.com/aherok/errbot_plugins (helps with timezone conversions
>> that might be useful to have for folks that keep on getting them wrong).
>> - some stackalytics integration bot?
>> - something even better???
>> - some other plugin @ https://github.com/errbotio/errbot/wiki
>>
>> -Josh
>>
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