Description of all IRC bots

[Altai-man]

At the Glossary page we already have dalek, camelia and yoleaux, but also we have bisectbot. Is it still working? If yes, I think we should write about it too.

[AlexDaniel]

It is working great! There's also committable. benchable is going to appear soon too.

However, I recommend you to wait a couple of days before writing about these bots. There are way too many commits in the last few days (see https://github.com/perl6/bisectbot/), it would be sad to have some information become outdated tomorrow.

[Altai-man]

English is not my native(really, really not), so for a native reader of docs my writing skills are quite limited. Because of that, I opened this issue instead of commiting, since I hope someone else will write this out.
I'm not in a hurry too, so waiting for some time is not harmful, of course.

[AlexDaniel]

If we have a description for some bots, there's probably no reason not to write about all other bots we have. I changed the title of this issue.

👍 Feel free to edit this list 👍

• dalek – https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#dalek (soon to be decomissioned)
• Geth - a less buggy and Perl 6 version of dalek: https://github.com/zoffixznet/geth (run by @Tyil)
• camelia – https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#camelia_, but it does not discuss all of the options
• synopsebot - creates links to the synopses and turns mentions of RT ticket numbers into clickable RT links (contact timotimo if it is down)
• Whateverable family (run by @AlexDaniel)
  • bisectable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Bisectable
  • committable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Committable
  • benchable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Benchable
  • evalable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Evalable
  • unicodable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Unicodable
  • statisfiable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Statisfiable
  • bloatable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Bloatable
  • quotable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Quotable
  • greppable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Greppable
  • coverable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Coverable
  • releasable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Releasable
  • nativecallable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Nativecallable
  • squashable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Squashable
  • reportable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Reportable
  • notable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Notable
  • shareable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Shareable
  • undersightable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Undersightable
  • tellable – https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Tellable
• yoleaux – https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#yoleaux_, (run by dpk) (the bot is now down, its db was transferred to tellable)
• huggable - factoid bot; source: https://github.com/zoffixznet/huggable [Run by Zoffix on their Linode]
• buggable – RT queue search and utility bot; source: https://github.com/zoffixznet/perl6-buggable [Run by Zoffix on their Linode]
• SourceBaby – core source code locator (lets use CoreHackers::Sourcery on fresh Rakudo builds from IRC) source: https://github.com/zoffixznet/perl6-sourceable [Run by Zoffix on hack]
• Undercover – very similar to SourceBaby, except points to perl6.wtf indicating stresstest coverage of code; run by Zoffix on hack; source: https://github.com/zoffixznet/undercover
• NeuralAnomaly - automated release maker and release status bot; run by Zoffix on their Linode; source: https://github.com/zoffixznet/na (temporarily offline)
• ilbot3 – IRC logging bot; source: https://github.com/moritz/ilbot
• ZofBot – Markov Chain bot (but not in #perl6); also Zoffix's IRC-mention-to-Twitter-DM relay bot
• ilogger2
• perlbot – evalbot (rkeval: say "Hello") and pastebin service (https://f.perlbot.pl/#perl6); run by simcop2387 (some help page)
• PufferBot – An IRC bot for testing builds of Rakudo on OpenBSD. It can be addressed by its full name ('PufferBot'). Talks only in #perl6-dev. (run by Kaiepi)
• BeastieBot – An IRC bot for testing builds of Rakudo on FreeBSD. It can be addressed by its full name ('BeastieBot'). Talks only in #perl6-dev. (run by Kaiepi)
• p6lert – IRC bot for http://alerts.perl6.org/
• cpan-raku - Updates about new Raku modules uploaded to CPAN (run by @Tyil)

[zoffixznet]

Added desc for my bots. I think it's useful to add both the source (if people want to run a copy somewhere) and the contact for the person(s) who's running the bot in case something needs to be changed about the way the bot runs.

[coke]

I wonder if this is the sort of thing that better belongs in the rakudo
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[AlexDaniel]

I don't think that it does. To me it seems that creating language/community is a very good idea. All things like bot descriptions will be moved there eventually (per #728).

Anyway, it is not rakudo-specific, so I'm not sure why would it fit rakudo wiki better than language docs.

[coke]

Sorry, yes, I was trying to indicate non-spec, not rakudo-specific.

[coke]

Maybe this belongs on perl6.org/community

[zakame]

Hmm would something like a spec that bots can implement would do to document them automatically in some way? I could imagine some other IRC doc bot querying these others for their description, function lists, example usage. and maybe author and source (for those who wish to run a copy,) so the doc bot can update a page somewhere (just like a logger bot.) This way, there's less issue about the bot list going out of date.

[AlexDaniel]

@zakame I don't think we will ever manage to implement something like this. Not all bots are controlled by us, so it is unlikely that there'd be something all bots will adhere to. I think a simple page with short descriptions of all bots (+ links to their documentation) is all we need.

[AlexDaniel]

Oh, the problem is that there's no clear place where we could put it. I was suggesting language/community page, but it seems that it won't happen. There's https://perl6.org/community/ and maybe we can even have https://perl6.org/bots ? But then it's an issue for https://github.com/perl6/perl6.org/

[toolforger]

Providing a place to put such a description can be enough of an incentive to make bot authors fill it.
Particularly if it is useful for bot authors in some way - easier installation, less hassle with implementing standard commands, that kind of thing.

[zakame]

I suppose in https://perl6.org/community/irc then? Perhaps there should be a note there on how bot authors can update the list (e.g. post a new issue on the perl6.org repo, or reach someone on IRC, etc.)

[JJ]

Can someone please update the list? I see some "soon to be decomissioned", for instance.

[AlexDaniel]

Also there are more bots now.

[zoffixznet]

It's possible the list on https://perl6.org/community/irc is more up-to-date than this Issue. (I was under the impression it was already closed)

soon to be decomissioned

😨 poor dalek. He never hurt anyone!

[JJ]

He was a good dalek. So. Close this issue for good?

[AlexDaniel]

So. Close this issue for good?

Also there are more bots now.

reportable, notable, shareable are not mentioned on the website. I think we'll also have BeastieBot soon (a clone of PufferBot but on freebsd instead of openbsd?). The issue can be moved to perl6.org repo if we need that.

[zoffixznet]

Puffer bot is already listed. I do notice we list three bots in Glossary in the docs tho https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#IRC

[JJ]

Is someone up for this? If you add one at a time, it's not such a hard work...

[taboege]

As an addendum: Bots camelia, dalek and yoleaux are mentioned with links in https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#Bot but none of the links work. If they are documented, that could be fixed as well. However, the links in @AlexDaniel's list point to the same non-existent anchors in the Glossary.

PS: Sorry, I accidentally clicked somewhere on AlexDaniel's list and that committed something. I can't roll back that change nor understand the "diff" it shows me to undo it.

[AlexDaniel]

@taboege fixed! Yeah, github comments are weird.

[AlexDaniel]

@taboege as for broken links, I think these sections existed in the glossary but then were moved elsewhere (or removed completely). @JJ can you take a look?

[JJ]

They were not moved, far as I know... They should be fixed, I guess