bot

Today I finished up the last strokes (to me at least) of the bot authentication, which I added to my sandbox repository. In the past few weeks I have struggled with making the simpletest of the bot working reliably, so we decided with Morbus to move ahead with the other submodules. (even tho, i figured there is another way to make this work, with either a CLI client, or using the PHP filesockets, will do this when i got some time).

All approved students will be asked to keep track of the pertinent details about their project in a central wiki page on this group. The following is a template for them to use to do this.

Project information

Project page on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/bot (original module, customizations are going to be placed into sandbox)
Student: Balazs Dianiska (snufkin on d.o, snufkin@drupal.org on g.d.o)
Mentor: Morbus (Morbus)
Co-mentor: dmitrig01 (dmitrig01)

Current status: Working on setting up PHP IRCd for automated connection and other unit testing for the bot.

Description

Bot module is a Drupal PHP IRC bot written by Morbus Iff. It runs on many Drupal related channels, providing various tools from code documentation to collaboration between users. It utilizes the CMS as its storage and code handling back-end, but until now not many public modules exploit the potential in this website - IRC interaction, interacting with Drupal content, site users for instance. This project will extend its core in this direction, and by writing tests and documentation for it will make further contribution easier.

First update: the aggregator section.
Second update: added bot_bnc for bonus track

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