Finished. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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