Re: [infobot] infobot mailing lists

[Jonathan H. <vha...@ru...>]

> Everyone I've talked to agrees that infobot is dead in it's current 
> form. There are a ton of forks with new names and most of them have 
> implemented the same types fo features, but differently.
> 
> My hope would be to get some of the forks back working on the same set 
> of sources. More eyes/hands equals faster progress.
> 
> I'd like to come to some consensus as to a new design first. If that's 
> not possible than the forks will continue.

How about a wiki and an IRC channel, and some active interest, and
thoughts on how a 'bot' should work?

Having worked on Knab for all this time, I have big ideas on "What A Bot
Should Be" (most of which are along the lines of "Exactly Unlike What I
Did When I Implemented Such And Such", experience has such a way of
teaching you how NOT to do stuff).  I'd love to get involved from
scratch again.

Is Perl the way the bot should go?  Is it the best choice?  Why?  Is
specific choice of language a good way to go?  In today's multi-lingua
world, should we stick to one language, or have a source-independent
API, communicating with RPC or PB or SOAP?


The fantastic thing about infobot is that anybody who was ever
interested in bots has looked at an infobot at some stage or other.
That's a large resource to draw on.  Count me in, anyway.


(At least lets get a freenode IRC channel started?)

Cheers,
-Jonathan