Completely forgot that we need to write weekly updates, thought everything moved to the wikis, sorry about that.
My first aim with the project is to have fully covered unit tests for the bot core so other contrib modules can build on it. For that I need to run simpletest in concurrent mode with two threads, so a server and client instant can communicate with each other (emulating an IRC server and client in PHP). I hit a wall with the simpletest due to a bug (#473504), but it has been fixed enough so I can use it now. Before jumping into the actual php server implementation I wanted to test if i can actually make socket based communication work, and ended up with the mock server test.
Currently I am working on stripping down php ircd and squeezing it into the real BotServerTestCase.
All the code I commit are in my sandbox.