Allow fully deleting bots

[Lyla-Fischer]

Once a bot is created, there is no way to delete it completely. The most you can do is deactivate it. This can make for a cluttered workspace, if you have a habit of creating new bots rather than re-using old ones and editing the name. It's also not possible to edit the pseudo-email for a bot, so even the active-reuse strategy doesn't work if you are actually using those pseudo-emails semantically.

[zulipbot]

Hello @zulip/server-bots, @zulip/server-settings members, this issue was labeled with the "area: bots", "area: settings (user)" labels, so you may want to check it out!

[Igorgro]

Any update on this?

[h3po]

there is now a delete button in the "your bots" view which allowed me to delete a bot and reuse its name/email when creating a new one. in the organization view, there's still no delete button.

[dmikushin]

there is now a delete button in the "your bots" view which allowed me to delete a bot and reuse its name/email when creating a new one. in the organization view, there's still no delete button.

Are you sure? The delete button actually only deactivates a bot and places it into "inactive bots" tab.

[Suput]

Using Zulip in Docker. Version 6.1

Can't find delete button on bots tab (organization or personal settings)

[h3po]

seems to have gone back to the old behavior

[luther84]

Just ran across this, created a test bot to check something with the api and realized that my new test bot is now a permanent feature of our installation. I can deactivate it which is great but I was really hoping to remove it entirely. We'd certainly appreciate if this feature was added.

[predmijat]

While you wait for a button to do this, you can do the following:

su - zulip
./deployments/current/manage.py delete_user -u your_bot@your_org -f

./deployments/current/manage.py delete_user --help for details.

[luther84]

That is fantastically helpful, thank you!

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