Re: Bugzilla bot on irc://irc.gnome.org/#bzbot

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 15:49 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> Mozilla has an irc bot called 'bzbot' running on a few channels. It
> reports new bugs and some (not all) changes to one or more channels.
> 
> I've hacked bzbot a little to allow it to work for bugzilla.gnome.org
> and it has the following features (most of these where in the original
> version):
> * Does not connect to bugzilla.gnome.org
> * Highlights email addresses in green, products in aqua
> * Can send the following messages to the channel:
>   1. New bug filed
>   2. For new bugs optionally show program that caused the crash
>      and five functions (taken from find-traces.pl)
>   3. Bug status changes (eg unco->resolved duplicate)
>      but not when the new status is NEW/ASSIGNED/VERIFIED
>   4. Product changes
>   5. Created patches
>   6. Patch status changes (such as accepted-commit_now)
> * If bzbot sends a message to the channel, it will include an extra line
>   showing url, product, component, severity, priority, status, summary.
> * Fast, should usually report within a few seconds (depends on when I
>   receive the email)
> 
> The bot only reports for certain products. I've included the following
> products (I watch most but not all of these):
>   acme, bugzilla.gnome.org, general, gnome-applets
>   gnome-desktop, gnome-media, gnome-panel, gnome-terminal
>   gnome-utils, gtk+, metacity, nautilus, totem, vte
> 
> This is just a test. I haven't decided if I want to run bzbot
> permanently.
> 
> Still reading? Time to /join #bzbot, triage some bugs and see them
> appear :)

This looks pretty sweet. Maybe we could have two, one that is high
volume (and in #bzbot or something similar) and one that is lower volume
(all products but only new bugs?) for #bugs?

Luis