Motion to suspend eir

[Neal Bussett]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:22:14PM +0300, Jussi Schultink wrote:
> For the first one, there are fixes on the way - every operator will be
> given admin (as the ircc has now) and therefore the ability to change
> bans, see information etc.

How maintainable is this?  I saw some giant regexp the other day, do we
have to maintain that as people come and go in order to keep this?  Is
that really scalable?

> Second, the floodbot bans. While there is little we can do right at
> this second about this, we are working on a solution - our own
> instance of eir, where we have complete control and are able to change
> everything. However, that is going to take a little while to get
> working correctly, however it will come soon. I see this problem
> mainly as an annoyance, not something that should interfere with our
> daily work.

Is our own custom version of eir going to perform the way eir was
originally advertised? Be optional for those of us who choose to use it?
How long (rough estimate) is this going to take to implement?

>From discussions I've had, we seemed to implement eir without really
understanding how it works and without sitting down to think about how
we would use it.  

I think a much better approach would be to sit down and hash out our
various use-cases to determine how we want to interact with the bot and
how we want the bot to interact with us (and other bots).
This would give us a goal to work towards, and a rubric to compare the
various solutions to find one that works best for us, instead of
various options to find one that works best for us, instead of picking a
bot first and being forced to work around its design to come up with a
workable solution.

Regards,
Neal Bussett