* Rebranding from blootbot to infobot

[infobot.git] / README

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@@ -1,20 +1,15 @@
-This is out of date.
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-blootbot v1.0.0 (20000729)
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+infobot v1.5.0
+--------------
 
 INTRODUCTION
-       This bot is based upon infobot-0.44.2 by kevin lenzo
-<lenzo@cs.cmu.edu>. The basis of infobot is still there but _many_ wild
-features have been added. Along the way, a couple of typos were spotted
-in the original infobot source and fixed in this version. Without infobot,
-there would be no blootbot so all thanks to kevin for bringing infobot in
-the first place.
+       This bot is based upon blootbot, which was a fork of infobot-0.44.2 by
+Kevin Lenzo <lenzo@cs.cmu.edu>, which is now officially rebranded back to
+infobot!  The basis of infobot is still there but _many_ wild features have
+been added.  Along the way, a couple of typos were spotted in the original
+infobot source and fixed in this version. Without infobot, there would be no
+blootbot, and thus no infobot again, so all thanks to kevin for bringing
+infobot in the first place.
+
 
 FEATURES
        * Additional information stored with factoids. (factinfo)
@@ -29,17 +24,20 @@ FEATURES
        * Slashdot, Kernel and Freshmeat auto-update announcements.
        * Units conversion (provided by external module, Units-Module)
 
-       DESIGN
-               - Modularity. Ability to disable IRC or Factoid support.
-               - Funky pseudo Module autoloader support
-               - Eleet Forker() function
 
-Improvements include:
+DESIGN
+       - Modularity. Ability to disable IRC or Factoid support.
+       - Funky pseudo Module autoloader support
+       - Eleet Forker() function
+
+
+IMPROVEMENTS
        * log file is not opened and closed for each line of data
                => unblocked logging is used.
        * seen data is not flushed for each public message on IRC
                => caching and flushing over an interval is used.
 
+
 HISTORY
        As of 0.99pre1, blootbot supports mysql database in the hope to
 increase performance and to avoid borked over dbm's which occurred when
@@ -56,9 +54,13 @@ back. It should work in all but 3 specific (countdown, factstats unreq)
 cases. preliminary pgsql support has been added but someone with pgperl
 knowledge needs to fix it up or at least unify the module with mysql.
 
+       As of 1.5.0, blootbot was rebranded back to infobot.
+
+
 INSTALLATION
   - Read the included INSTALL file
 
+
 NOTICE
        Be warned that this bot consumes quite a lot of memory upon start
 up and during usage. Right now, 7.4megs is used for old'ish perl, 8.3megs
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ welcomed.
 blootbot, not based on the above source base.  Core factoid code and
 mysql support works - but that is it.
 
+
 MODIFICATIONS
        All modifications are that of the blootbot author unless otherwise
 specified, like none.  See 'ChangeLog' for details.  A list of future
@@ -119,7 +122,8 @@ NOTES
 through DCC CHAT. /chat <BOT NICK>.  All commands must be prepended by
 '.' otherwise it is sent to the bot chat net
 
-### UNTESTED:
+
+UNTESTED:
        - user statistics shown by 'seen'. bug in this?
        - User Information Services.
        - new wingate caching/file-read code.
@@ -145,11 +149,12 @@ hope to get that same guy to re-send me the patch...
 
 CONTACT
        Contributions of a patch, or anything, can be sent to
-<dms@users.sourceforge.net>
+<infobot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
 
 Some Documentation is on the website. Please see it for details or
-visit: http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=8794
+visit: http://infobot.sourceforge.net/
+
 
 IRC
        If your looking to hang out on IRC, feel free. We can be found
-in the #blootbot channel on irc.freenode.net. See you there!
+in the #infobot channel on irc.freenode.net. See you there!