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Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Joshua Harlow's message of 2016-07-29 08:47:32 -0700:
>> Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>> On 2016-07-28 23:17:52 -0700 (-0700), Morgan Fainberg wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> Yes, it's come up semi-often (also Joshua mentioned this to me over
>>> IRC earlier in the week where I basically told him the same).
>>> There's been a general consensus that the Infra team would love to
>>> see the IRC bots it manages (gerribot, meetbot, statusbot) rewritten
>>> in a common framework, preferably a modern and extensible one. The
>>> last time anyone looked into options (which admittedly was probably
>>> at least a year ago), errbot seemed like the leading contender for
>>> our desired language and featureset.
>>>
>>> To echo Morgan, we just need (and would really appreciate!) someone
>>> working on the implementation.
>> I'll see what I can do in my (spare time), but others are also willing
>> to jump in and learn some errbot ;)
>>
>> The previously mentioned examples of plugins (repeated here) are IMHO
>> good things to look at if people are interested in messing around:
>>
>> - https://github.com/harlowja/gerritbot2
>> - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/343857/
>>
>> I guess if people want to jump in and explore, message me as well on IRC
>> (or email or smoke signals...),
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>
> I have a couple of commands I'd like to add, too. How about if we
> set up a repo for errbot plugins and start working on them in the
> review system?  Then when we feel like we've hit a critical mass
> of "usefulness" we can start adding an infra-hosted copy of the new
> bot to channels, and migrating remaining features from the older
> bots over to the new one.
>

Sounds like a good idea to me :)

What shall we name it??? (I'll be online in IRC in a few, in internal 
standup currently, prob can just discuss there, ha).

> Doug
>
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