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Looks interesting, curious about the motivation for creating it and the differences / advantages over hubot? (other than the obvious different choice of languag
by gingerlime 11y ago
Looks interesting, curious about the motivation for creating it and the differences / advantages over hubot? (other than the obvious different choice of language).
Perhaps I missed it, because there's plenty of documentation, which is great of course, but I somehow felt a bit overwhelmed with detail so couldn't really see the wood for the trees.
EDIT: a few key differences as far as I could spot (although not sure what's the most fundamental difference):
* plugins can be dynamically loaded (e.g. from a git url), even via the chat interface itself.
* more focus on security / permissions to administer (I'm guessing that's also partially connected to the dynamic nature of plugins, because without security it's very easy to mess things up)
* plugin eco-system seems a bit thin(?) could only find a strange list to github repos[1]
* built-in per-plugin persistence (not sure how it is actually stored though)
[1] https://github.com/gbin/err/blob/master/errbot/repos.py https://github.com/gbin/err/blob/master/errbot/repos.py
- Animats 11y agoIt's not just a chat bot. It's a framework for a chat bot. (It seems to be a bit late to be doing IRC bots. Can you do 'bots on Kik?)
- gbin 11y agoTo add to your list here are few slides I presented at the last chatops meetup in SFO about errbot with some more emphasis on plugin development: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YnQaz5bMr5PJNYEJzjKmmr5w9OqjKLCMg-VLf5q6tYE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YnQaz5bMr5PJNYEJzjKm...
- gbin 11y agoabout the built-in per-plugin persistence: it is just python pickle based at the moment but there is some recent interest on abstracting it for other storage backends like redis (https://github.com/gbin/err/issues/478 https://github.com/gbin/err/issues/478).