[squeak-dev] irc bots update

I have been refining my irc announce-bots in #squeak-in-depth. Today we judged them fit for polite company and they
graduated to the main channels. They are:

in #squeak:

  squeakplanetbot   - announces blog posts appearing on planet.squeak.org
  squeakbugsbot     - announces new and revived mantis bugs (currently receiving further polish)
  squeaktrunkbot    - announces code published on source.squeak.org
  squeaksourcebot   - announces code published on squeaksource.com

in #etoys:


  etoystrackerbot   - announces new bugs in the squeakland tracker (squeaklandbugsbot didn't fit...)

  etoysupdatesbot   - announces new etoys code updates


not yet graduated, and offline till I make them comply with stackoverflow's requirements:

  sosqueakbot       - announces squeak-tagged questions on stackoverflow.com
  sosmalltalkbot    - announces smalltalk-tagged questions on stackoverflow.com

I'll continue to watch and tune these for a while. The goal is for them to be non-annoying, useful and maintenance-free.
Please contact me in case of trouble. I'm sm on irc.freenode.net. Thanks to Ken and Bert for their comments and help
setting up feeds.

-Simon

PS for the curious: these all announce rss/atom feeds using the rss2irc software. They mostly poll every 5 minutes with
squeaksource, trunk and the planet going a bit slower. You can remind yourself what they do by sending "/whois botname".

Bloody cool Simon!

I hope more Squeakers join up on #squeak.

regards, Göran

I just realised that squeaktrunkbot is showing each change three times - once for inbox (with the author's name), and
again for trunk and treated (with the core developer's name).

What I'd like is to see just the trunk commit, with the author's name. I would rather get this from a feed than code
around it in the bot - I am trying to avoid maintaining custom squeak-specific bot code. Would anyone know how to get a
feed with that information out of the source.squeak.org squeaksource ?

On 24.08.2009, at 18:07, Simon Michael wrote:

> I just realised that squeaktrunkbot is showing each change three  
> times - once for inbox (with the author's name), and again for trunk  
> and treated (with the core developer's name).
>
> What I'd like is to see just the trunk commit, with the author's  
> name. I would rather get this from a feed than code around it in the  
> bot - I am trying to avoid maintaining custom squeak-specific bot  
> code. Would anyone know how to get a feed with that information out  
> of the source.squeak.org squeaksource ?


http://source.squeak.org/trunk/feed.rss

- Bert -

Thanks. That gives the trunk commits, but not with the original author's name.

There was a vote for keeping at least the inbox notifications, but I'm also keen to keep the noise level down. I'll
experiment some more.