#django DjangoBot

The #django IRC channel has bot that aides everyone with some pretty basic tasks. It takes the identify of the nickname DjangoBot. It is currently written using the ​Twisted networking library and can be found at ​http://code.google.com/p/djangobot/. It is written and maintained by ​brosner.

Features

Trac Ticket/Changeset Linking

It is very common for someone to reference a ticket or changeset in the IRC room. The DjangoBot will handle the linking for you if you follow the basic syntax it requires. To reference a ticket simply use the Trac syntax #13. The same applies to changesets, r530. The DjangoBot does not work with the square bracket notation due to IRC nickname collisions for those who use square brackets around their numbered name.

DjangoPeople Integration

The excellent ​djangopeople.net website created by ​Simon Willison and ​Natalie Downe is integrated with the bot. If you send a privmsg to the bot you can find out a bit more information about the peers you talk with in #django. Simply do:

/msg DjangoBot who brosner

The bot will then go out and fetch information about brosner. This works with any IRC handle that is associated to a profile on DjangoPeople.

Future Features

Ticket/Changeset Channel Notification

Work is under way to linking the Trac feed with the bot. This will provide updates as they occur on Trac. To reduce noise only tickets that are created/closed/reopened and changesets will be notified. This work is almost complete and in beta testing now.

Dpaste Channel Notification

There is the possibility of doing some form of integration with the official Django pastebin, ​dpaste.com. There is no word on what the integration will look like, but a good future feature.

Reporting Bugs

If you happen to come across a bug with the bot, please head over to ​http://code.google.com/p/djangobot/issues/list and check if it has already been issued, if not please create a new issue!