1 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
5 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
7 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
9 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
11 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
12 * quit message for restart
14 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
16 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
18 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
22 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
24 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
26 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
28 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
29 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
30 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
31 * finish fixing the httputil
33 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
35 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
36 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
38 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
40 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
41 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
42 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
43 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
44 values whenever it's queried.
45 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
46 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
47 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
50 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
52 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
54 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
56 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
57 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
60 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
62 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
63 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
64 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
66 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
68 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
69 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
70 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
72 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
75 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
77 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
78 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
79 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
80 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
82 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
84 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
85 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
86 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
87 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
89 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
91 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
92 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
93 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
94 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
95 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
96 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
97 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
100 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
102 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
103 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
104 * reworking the config system key names
105 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
106 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
107 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
108 bot's language at runtime.
109 * various other fixes
110 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
111 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
112 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
113 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
114 def MyPlugin < Plugin
119 def complexfoo(m, params)
120 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
123 plugin = MyPlugin.new
127 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
128 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
129 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
130 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
131 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
132 # you can also gobble up into an array
133 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
134 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
135 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
138 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
140 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
141 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
142 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
143 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
145 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
147 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
148 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
149 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
151 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
153 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
154 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
155 according to bot config.
157 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
159 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
160 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
161 * New feature: karmastats
163 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
165 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
166 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
168 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
169 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
170 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
171 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
172 interfere with other plugin commands.
174 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
176 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
178 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
182 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
184 * fixed insult plugin
185 * fixed excuse plugin
187 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
189 * searching for urls in the url plugin
190 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
192 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
194 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
195 working so I guess it changed again since then
196 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
198 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
200 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
202 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
203 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
204 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
206 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
211 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
215 * various plugin updates
216 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
217 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
218 changes and related information
221 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
222 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
223 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
224 * status command returns some bot status
226 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
227 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
228 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
229 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
230 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
231 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
232 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
233 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
234 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
237 * plugin object registry
238 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
239 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
240 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
241 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
245 @registry[:blah] = blah
246 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
247 can access the blah object as it was, with:
248 blah = @registry[:blah]
249 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
250 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
253 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
254 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
255 example (in your plugin):
266 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
267 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
268 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
270 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
271 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
272 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
273 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
274 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
275 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
276 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
277 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
278 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
279 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
281 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
282 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
283 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
285 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
286 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
287 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
288 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
289 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
290 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
292 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
294 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
295 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
296 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
298 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
299 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
300 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
301 original infobot math module)
302 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
303 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
304 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
305 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
306 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
307 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
308 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
309 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
311 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
312 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
313 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
314 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
315 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
316 imported and merged into the database.
317 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
318 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
320 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
324 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
325 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
326 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
327 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
328 not intended and should be fixed now
329 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
330 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
331 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
332 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
333 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
334 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
335 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
336 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
337 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
338 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
339 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
340 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
341 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
342 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
348 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
349 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
350 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
351 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
352 can be added on the fly.
353 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
358 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
360 * fixes to a few other buglets
361 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
362 folks who love bb :-)
363 * fixes to various plugins
364 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
365 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
366 Fix bug joining channels with keys
370 * better "connect failure" error message
371 * better option parsing, and --debug option
372 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
374 ./rbot.rb --help core
375 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
376 * Fix broken help from last point release
377 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
378 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
379 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
380 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
381 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
382 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
383 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
385 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
389 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
393 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
395 * rdoc documentation!
396 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
397 form of "foo" (lost the .)
398 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
402 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
403 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
404 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
406 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
408 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
409 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
410 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
414 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
415 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
419 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
420 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
421 * fix searchquote regexp
422 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
423 which is for master auth.
427 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
428 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
429 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
431 * more language breadth
432 * Addressing works better now
433 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
434 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5