8 This bot is based upon blootbot, which was a fork of infobot-0.44.2 by
9 Kevin Lenzo <lenzo@cs.cmu.edu>, which is now officially rebranded back to
10 infobot! The basis of infobot is still there but _many_ wild features have
11 been added. Along the way, many issues were spotted in the original
12 infobot source and fixed in this version. Many new bugs have been added as well
13 Thanks to kevin for bringing infobot in the first place.
17 * Additional information stored with factoids. (factinfo)
18 * Wide range of statistics for Bot, Factoids, IRC, Debian.
19 (status, factstats, ircstats, chanstats, cmdstats)
20 * Advanced topic management. (the first cool feature)
21 * Improved factoid search, allowing search by key or value.
22 * Freshmeat support (freshmeat.net)
23 * Debian Contents and Packages, search and info.
24 * ChanServ/NickServ (freenode) support.
25 * WWW-Search (eg: google for BLAH)
26 * Slashdot, Kernel and Freshmeat auto-update announcements.
27 * Units conversion (provided by external module, Units-Module)
31 - Modularity. Ability to disable IRC or Factoid support.
32 - Funky pseudo Module autoloader support
33 - Eleet Forker() function
37 * log file is not opened and closed for each line of data
38 => unblocked logging is used.
39 * seen data is not flushed for each public message on IRC
40 => caching and flushing over an interval is used.
44 As of 0.99pre1, blootbot supports mysql database in the hope to
45 increase performance and to avoid borked over dbm's which occurred when
46 the bot crashed (??). The mysql code is far larger (or perhaps twice
47 as many functions) than expected even though a few functions were needed
48 for DBM due to lack of table deficiencies.
50 As of 1.0.0pre1, blootbot takes advantage of Net::IRC. The
51 change over was fairly comfortable (95% clean). Just minor problems here
52 and there, mostly debugging and getting it right.
54 As of 1.0.0RC2, the old style DBM (Berkeley) has been ported
55 back. It should work in all but 3 specific (countdown, factstats unreq)
56 cases. preliminary pgsql support has been added but someone with pgperl
57 knowledge needs to fix it up or at least unify the module with mysql.
59 As of 1.5.0, blootbot was rebranded back to infobot.
63 - Read the included INSTALL file
67 Be warned that this bot consumes quite a lot of memory upon start
68 up and during usage. Right now, 7.4megs is used for old'ish perl, 8.3megs
69 with perl 5.005. fork() is used but don't be alarmed at the memory usage
70 as fork(), as I was told, uses COW (copy on write).
72 WARNING: enabling wingate support may involve complaints of some
73 sort, probably because the telnet connection isn't closed properly.
74 However, these people do not realize the potential of open wingates.
76 Please beta test it and report bugs as I have not had the time to
77 test all modifications properly (and extensively). Suggestions are
82 All modifications are that of the blootbot author unless otherwise
83 specified, like none. See 'ChangeLog' for details. A list of future
84 features listed in 'TODO'.
86 See 'USAGE' for complete list of commands with description
87 (FIXME) and examples (FIXME). Yes, it is incomplete. It is better for
88 you to find the cookies than for me to hand-feed them to you ;)
90 See 'EXAMPLES' for various usage of factoids and "hidden"
91 variables. If you're hardcore, check out 'CommandStubs.pl' and
92 'UserExtras.pl' for cool features.
94 topic [help] - Topic help.
95 topic add <topic> - Append <topic> to the current topic.
96 topic del <#> - Purge topic ID <#> from current topic.
97 topic list - List broken down summary of current topic.
98 topic mod s/old/new/ - Modify the topic using regex.
99 - Now supports , and # as delimiters.
100 topic mv <1> <type> <2> - <type>:
101 before - Move <1> before <2>
102 after - Move <1> after <2>
103 swap - Swap <1> and <2>
104 topic shuffle - Jumble the subtopics.
106 topic history - Show previous channel topics.
107 topic restore <#> - Restore channel topic to <#> on history
110 ==> Individual commands: NEW
111 (lobotomy|bequiet) -- [o] silence the bot.
112 (unlobotomy|benoisy) -- [o] unsilence the bot.
114 set <param> <value> -- ...
119 To administrate/control the bot remotely, this can only be done
120 through DCC CHAT. /chat <BOT NICK>. All commands must be prepended by
121 '.' otherwise it is sent to the bot chat net
125 - user statistics shown by 'seen'. bug in this?
126 - User Information Services.
127 - new wingate caching/file-read code.
128 - disabling IRC/factoid support code.
129 - PG supports need to be worked and thoroughly tested.
133 jCommons, is, netgod, mu and Mercury for attempting to break my
134 modifications, aswell as giving suggestions and ideas in the early
135 development stages. Bashing of modifications courtesy of larne, irq, lilo
138 mu@freenode for the SAR (=~ s///) and Topic history patch.
140 someone emailed me a patch to fix up telnet but I accidently
141 deleted the message together with the patch after replying to the guy. I
142 hope to get that same guy to re-send me the patch...
144 MbM@freenode sent a patch to clean up behaviour of factoids
145 (adding, removing, modifying). Thanks.
149 Contributions of a patch, or anything, can be sent to
150 <infobot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
152 Some Documentation is on the website. Please see it for details or
153 visit: http://infobot.sourceforge.net/
157 If your looking to hang out on IRC, feel free. We can be found
158 in the #infobot channel on irc.freenode.net. See you there!
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