1 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
4 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
5 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
6 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
7 values whenever it's queried.
8 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
9 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
10 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
13 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
15 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
17 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
19 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
20 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
23 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
25 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
26 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
27 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
29 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
31 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
32 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
33 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
35 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
38 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
40 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
41 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
42 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
43 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
45 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
47 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
48 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
49 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
50 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
52 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
54 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
55 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
56 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
57 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
58 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
59 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
60 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
63 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
65 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
66 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
67 * reworking the config system key names
68 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
69 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
70 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
71 bot's language at runtime.
73 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
74 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
75 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
76 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
82 def complexfoo(m, params)
83 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
90 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
91 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
92 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
93 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
94 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
95 # you can also gobble up into an array
96 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
97 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
98 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
101 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
103 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
104 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
105 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
106 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
108 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
110 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
111 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
112 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
114 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
116 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
117 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
118 according to bot config.
120 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
122 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
123 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
124 * New feature: karmastats
126 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
128 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
129 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
131 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
132 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
133 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
134 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
135 interfere with other plugin commands.
137 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
139 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
141 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
145 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
147 * fixed insult plugin
148 * fixed excuse plugin
150 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
152 * searching for urls in the url plugin
153 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
155 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
157 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
158 working so I guess it changed again since then
159 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
161 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
163 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
165 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
166 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
167 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
169 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
174 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
178 * various plugin updates
179 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
180 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
181 changes and related information
184 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
185 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
186 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
187 * status command returns some bot status
189 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
190 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
191 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
192 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
193 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
194 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
195 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
196 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
197 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
200 * plugin object registry
201 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
202 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
203 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
204 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
208 @registry[:blah] = blah
209 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
210 can access the blah object as it was, with:
211 blah = @registry[:blah]
212 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
213 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
216 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
217 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
218 example (in your plugin):
229 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
230 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
231 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
233 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
234 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
235 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
236 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
237 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
238 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
239 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
240 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
241 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
242 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
244 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
245 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
246 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
248 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
249 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
250 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
251 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
252 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
253 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
255 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
257 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
258 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
259 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
261 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
262 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
263 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
264 original infobot math module)
265 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
266 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
267 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
268 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
269 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
270 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
271 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
272 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
274 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
275 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
276 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
277 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
278 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
279 imported and merged into the database.
280 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
281 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
283 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
287 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
288 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
289 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
290 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
291 not intended and should be fixed now
292 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
293 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
294 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
295 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
296 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
297 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
298 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
299 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
300 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
301 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
302 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
303 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
304 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
305 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
311 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
312 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
313 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
314 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
315 can be added on the fly.
316 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
321 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
323 * fixes to a few other buglets
324 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
325 folks who love bb :-)
326 * fixes to various plugins
327 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
328 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
329 Fix bug joining channels with keys
333 * better "connect failure" error message
334 * better option parsing, and --debug option
335 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
337 ./rbot.rb --help core
338 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
339 * Fix broken help from last point release
340 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
341 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
342 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
343 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
344 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
345 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
346 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
348 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
352 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
356 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
358 * rdoc documentation!
359 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
360 form of "foo" (lost the .)
361 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
365 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
366 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
367 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
369 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
371 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
372 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
373 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
377 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
378 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
382 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
383 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
384 * fix searchquote regexp
385 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
386 which is for master auth.
390 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
391 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
392 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
394 * more language breadth
395 * Addressing works better now
396 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
397 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5