MrBot

Currently online in the major RS channels as MrBot. MrBot has been online since August 4, 2007. He was offline for four months, 2008.02.07-2008.06.07, but has been back ever since.

If MrBot is not online, send an email to Licah and he will investigate.

See http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/irc/bot.help for instructions on using the bot.

todo

Necessary before "v1.0"

• Bot doesn't reconnect sometimes :(
• Bot sometimes just vanishes and ceases operation without error. Only possible clues are that Josh was peered immediately beforehand, and there was a batch of mysql connection errors just before that. Bot should never reach end of script without !quit.. research!
• Aggressively attempt to regain nick MrBot if stolen

and then

• Don't respond to !lookup in #db
• Fix topics to allow more than one word :P
• MrBot loses track of you if you change your nick to the same characters, but different cases. (Licah > LICAH)
• is there some kind of autotopic going on? weird...investigate
• Update "seen" if person PARTs a channel
• Automatically set +nst if opped or entering channel
• Don't reply to X's msgs
• Swear filter: allow setting via PM?
• further standardize error messages? -- make everything work like !op - including self-op-recognition
• resolve owner but not manager problems - e.g. Swifty #rid.
• !access - if only one channel, remove "s"
• Find out what's causing the occasional fwrite() errors
• (Website) Make it possible to edit stuff via website.
• (Website) figure out /irc/ folder, update /chat/ a little bit more - need to put /irc/tutorial.html back up (see http://icte.darkjedibrotherhood.com/schedule.html)
• slashes in channels or nicks are fatal; simply need to mres every channel and nick
• make sure log off mode is 100% error-free? though no one uses it.
• (!op) trying to op multiple people at once is bad:

[2008.07.24 20:06:25] <Lespin> !op Codyman Lespin
[2008.07.24 20:06:25] MrBot sets mode: +pino Codyman

• support for channel modes (+n, +s, +t) - put in mysql table?
• after kick, need to update seen/online (also after part?) - this is supposed to be in there already..
• "I've been online for 1 week, 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 60 seconds, since 2008.11.23 10:28:23pm EST." After 2 weeks uptime, command works improperly. (Nice to get that much uptime!)

other updates to consider

• "Target change too fast." message clogs up some logs. remove from logs entirely.
• update to use servers from db
• !access - people still not getting the right order - figure out what to do
• !topic - keep track of topic? allow !topic to have mrbot say topic (since undernet servers sometimes make it be lost)
• (!seen) searchroster(): search ABG chars too
• seen: recursive nick checks? licah|afk has not /nick'd LicahEvlDead, so there are now two results for "licah" while licah is licah|afk (because of different hostmasks)
• logs: consider making monthly archives of logs for filesize purposes
• Scrambler: !pause?
• Scrambler: option for private games
• !seen - should take a parameter of how many results - provide some way to see all? maybe on chat website
• !logout ability, more than just !private
• ops recognition: bot doesn't realize it has ops when it creates a channel, like #scrambler.
• consider dealing with this msg? :mesa.az.us.undernet.org 482 MrBot #rsio :You're not channel operator
• make command to have MrBot state which channels he does and does not have ops
• +ooo does not work for MrBot to recognize itself being opped?
• \ in nicks is not saved to seen list
• socket_accept() constantly generates errors? suppressed for now
• (re)connecting: lots of php errors generated -- need to suppress some (especially related to sockets, since we use error-handling for that)
• !dice: any logged-in person should be able to control this (also true w/!scrambler?)

expanded functionality

• (ICTE) matchmaking mode in multiple channels?
• (Games) trivia / hangman / wheel of fortune
• dictionary def: !def can use http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/ -- !etym can use http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=zephyr -- add links to urbandictionary and a comprehensive dictionary site for definitions that seem to fail (answers.com?)
• add support to reconnect to MySQL if the service is rebooted and/or the connection doesn't exist. Makes bot more robust, and we can restart mysql service as needed.
• I kinda want to revamp ICTE a lot and start awarding idle points, like the plan was for ORW3. That would involve some bot stuff, too. We can set that up with auto-on and auto-off for MrBot... it could be a completely automated ICTE system.. some sweet stuff could happen. It'd take a fair amount of time, but not as much as you might think. let's think about it.. also, maybe icte.rs.org? since it's going to be a major site of its own. Or, maybe just rs.org/icte will still work. That's a whole project to consider.. woot
• (RS-wide merits) add support for the two potential bot things
• (Stats) add support for line-counting, etc.
• keep track of everyone's status (+v, +o)
• !access doesn't work without providing a channel name - providing this ability would be tricky, since 1,2,3 are pins as well. Should be doable in some fashion.

Scrambler logs

• do some RS lists (can pull automatically from db and format -- like ABG chars, medals, etc)
• add logs from other scrambler (morelogs.rar)
• List of unusual words -- huge. http://phrontistery.info/a.html