On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Anita Kuno wrote: > >[...] > >So some items that have been raised thus far: > >- permissions: having a bot on gerrit with +2 +A is something we would > >like to avoid > >- "unsanctioned" bots (bots not in infra config files) in channels > >shared by multiple teams (meeting channels, the -dev channel) > >- forming a dependence on bots and expecting infra to maintain them ex > >post facto (example: bot soren maintained until soren didn't) > >- causing irritation for others due to the presence of an echoing bot > >which eventually infra will be asked or expected to mediate > >- duplication of features, both meetbot and purplebot log channels and > >host the archives in different locations > >- canonical bot doesn't get maintained > > So it feels like people write their own bot rather than contribute to the > already-existing infrastructure bots (statusbot and meetbot) -- is there a > reason for that, beyond avoiding the infra contribution process ?
I tend to find that bots like this are a great little hackday project or a good way to pick up a new programming language, so maybe that's part of the reason. :) // jim > I was faced with such a decision when I coded up the #success feature, but I > ended up just adding the feature to the existing statusbot, rather than > create my own successbot. Are there technical limitations in the existing > bots that prevent people from adding the features they want there ? > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
