[openstack-dev] Switch 'all?' openstack bots to errbot plugins?

Morgan Fainberg morgan.fainberg at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 06:17:52 UTC 2016


On Jul 28, 2016 22:50, "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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As I recall this has been on a long list of "we want to do it". It really
just comes down to someone putting effort into making it happen.

--Morgan
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