TODO

Roll the log file over

that is, don’t let it grow without bound, but instead, once it gets to a certain size, rename it and start a new file.

It might be easiest to invoke “multilog” from Dan Bernstein’s “daemontools” (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz ; available on Ubuntu 10.04 in the “daemontools” package)

Consider making the log a sequence of sexprs

rather than lines: this will make it easier for programs to parse … and it seems I’m writing more programs that want to parse it.

Get rid of “in/on” in the output of the “seen” command

surely I can figure out which preposition is appropriate.

Run with “–warn info”

… and fix the various lint-like warnings that come up

Put the persistent data someplace safe

That’s the big-log (which we mine for incubot-witticisms) and the userinfo db. I keep accidentally deleting them, and losing months of accumulated data; they should be on S3 or something.

Someone suggested Dropbox; that could work!

Incubot

Omit leading nicks from utterances

The original incubot does this. E.g., if we find

":offby1!n=user@pdpc/supporter/monthlybyte/offby1 PRIVMSG #scheme :rudybot: seen eli"

in the log, then we currently reduce that to

"rudybot: seen eli"

but we should really omit the leading nick and colon, yielding

"seen eli"

That’s because it looks odd for the bot to utter something that’s directed at someone who probably isn’t present.

Entirely omit, or at least trim, ACTION

I just saw the bot respond with “\1ACTION does something or other\1”, which was weird; it should have either said nothing, or else just “does something or other”.

Use the same logic …

… to initially create “parsed-log”, as to add individual utterances to it.

For example, I’m pretty sure I omit utterances that are addressed to the bot, and begin with a command; i.e., when jordanb says “rudybot: quote”, I don’t add that, since it’d be dull.

And yet when log-parser creates parsed-log, it blithely adds everything.

Underweight recent utterances

<jordanb> Offby1 should make a lolbot.
<offby1> already did
<jordanb> Heh
<jordanb> Have it join. ^_^
<jordanb> rudybot: lol
<rudybot> jordanb: lol
<jordanb> rudybot: lolbot                                                                                           [16:19]
<rudybot> jordanb: Offby1 should make a lolbot.
<jordanb> O                                                                                                         [16:21]
* offby1 makes a mental note to underweight recent utterances
<jordanb> I'm using emacs over X because it's less broken than tramp.
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