The new bot code
Martin Atkins
mart at degeneration.co.uk
Thu Jul 6 19:13:31 UTC 2006
Artur Bergman wrote:
>
> There are a different number of things being discussed here.
>
> A lot of the bot code is generic component stuff I guess, but we should
> write the specific cases first and then move up one step. Also there is
> nothing that says you can't service discover any jid, the jid for
> post.livejournal.com and post at livejournl.com are both discoverable,
> however I have serious doubts that post.livejournal.com as a jid will
> work well. username at post.livejournal.com will, but to implement a
> component for an entire domain and for an specific username is rather
> different.
That seems fair to me. I wasn't really suggesting that you guys write
component support just for bots, more just musing that it could be
generalized later.
> I am not opposed to username at post.livejournal.com being available, but
> I want a normal bot for people to chatter to.
>
Okay, a compromise:
* mart at journal.livejournal.com (for me) acts like the bot I guess you
guys are imagining when I "chat" with it. (remembering that Jabber makes
a distinction between "chat" and email-like messages.)
* A non-chat-type message to any username @journal.livejournal.com will
post to that journal using the subject and body I specify in my message,
as long as I have access to post in that journal. This way I can quickly
post messages using my client's "Send Message" function.
* Add mart at journal.livejournal.com to my roster by default so that I can
find it without having to read the instructions. Set its name to
something obvious like "Journal Posting Bot", and have its vcard
describe my journal rather than me.
This seems to me to offer the pros of both approaches with negligible
cons. (unless I've missed some?)
and maybe in in the future...
* Allow random JIDs to register with journal.livejournal.com so that
they can act as authenticated LiveJournal accounts.
* Make the username at journal.livejournal.com JIDs act as pubsub nodes
that send out anything sent to that journal.
* etc, etc....
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