Hi, When I started working on wm-bot I was designing it for less than 3 channels. I am really very happy that there are so many people who like it, and somehow it happened, that the bot is now being used in more than 170 channels.
That is slightly more than I designed it for, and its maintenance became really very complicated. For that reason I decided to redesign it a bit, and I created wm-bot 2.0 which is designed little bit better for this heavy load, but on other hand it's totally incompatible with old bot :-). No worries - i created convertor for configuration files so regular users should see no difference at all. If everything goes well the best scenario is that nobody see any change at all (bot shouldn't even disconnect from freenode, so nobody would literally see any difference), however if something goes wrong, the bot may disappear from some channels and there may be a logging gap. When the deployment is finished, some functions may stop working because I had to rewrite all plugins (around 20 of them now) and some of them can be properly tested only under heavy load. If there is anything broken (I will send another mail when it's all finished) please make a bugzilla ticket https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Tools That's all folks TL;DR; There is going to be deployment of new version of wm-bot, which may result in temporary outage (but shouldn't) and some functions may stop working properly after it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
