1013072 - IT Request: firebot (Byron Jones ‹:glob›)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Reps Graveyard :: Community IT Requests, task)

Description

[:glob ✱]

Name:
Byron Jones ‹:glob›

Mozillians.org Profile:
https://mozillians.org/u/glob/

Reps Profile:
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Community Name:
firebot


:: Other

shell server for hosting an irc bot


Comments:
the owner of the firebot irc bot is no longer able to support it.
http://www.psychoticwolf.net/2014/05/the-end-of-firebot/

i am willing to take over maintenance of it, and am in discussion with wolf to get the source (he's happy for me to take it over from him).

while i could host firebot on my personal shell server, my current preference is for it to be hosted on mozilla community it infrastructure (mostly from a personal cost point of view).

if possible, i would like a VM running rhel/centos/fedora that i have root access on to deploy and run firebot.


thankyou
-glob

Comment 1

[tad]

Hi Glob,

We can maybe get this running somewhere in the time between now, and when we have a modern, full featured replacement for him...


HP naturally fits this best. I'm not sure what mrz's thoughts are, so CC'ing him, so we can find out if this is suitable to be setup on a tiny HP instance.

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

thanks tad, that's great news.

i agree this should be viewed as a stop-gap measure pending a modern replacement.

note that in addition to the normal shell stuff required for running an irc bot, firebot receives its notifications from bugzilla via email.  i can manage the dns/mx side of things, but there may be firewall implications if port 25 isn't usually open to your hosts.

Comment 3

[Nikos Roussos [:comzeradd]]

Is this currently used in our IRC server?

In another note, if this is a Mozilla Community project I would feel more comfortable if it was Open Source. Is firebot's source code somewhere available?

Comment 4

[tad]

yep, it's used all over moznet.

It's open source, a google for mozbot should find it.

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to Nikos Roussos [:comzeradd] from comment #3)
> Is this currently used in our IRC server?

firebot is on #taipei-platform, #www, #windev, #webmaker, #webdev, #trivzilla, #thunderbird, #testday, #telemetry, #TCP, #tb-qa, #tb-bugs, #tarakorun, #tarako_qa, #sumodev, #sumo, #smokers, #slcteam, #shumway, #servo, #remostudents, #releng, #qawanted, #qanalysts, #qa, #perf, #palemoon, #pakistan, #openwebapps, #nyc, #nepal, #mozpdx, #mozilla.se, #mozilla.il, #mozilla-br, #mozfr, #mobile, #memshrink, #media, #mdndev, #mdn, #marketplace, #maildev, #l20n, #jsapi, #jetpack, #ionmonkey, #introduction, #input, #india, #gfx, #gaiaux, #gaia, #fxosqa, #fxos-perf, #fxos-comms, #fx-team, #frenchmoz, #firefox, #firebot, #firebit, #fhr, #extdev, #e10s, #devtools, #developers-br, #developers, #derekh, #content, #calendar, #bugs, #breakpad, #b2g, #apz, #anime, #androidsync, #amrita-univ, #amo-editors, #amo, #addons

> Is firebot's source code somewhere available?

while it's based on mozbot which is open source, i'm not aware of anywhere the source is currently available.  i'm still waiting on the source from wolf so i don't know about the license situation (i've just emailed him asking for clarification).

if possible i plan to publish the source on github.

Comment 6

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

What are the compute requirements? Who will own maintaining this host?

Comment 7

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to matthew zeier [:mrz] from comment #6)
> What are the compute requirements?

excellent question.

unfortunately i don't know they answer yet, and won't know until i can get a hold of the code and stand it up in a test vm locally.

most irc bots aren't very computationally heavy, however firebot's a bmo global watcher, so it has a lot of email to process, preferably in a timely manner.

> Who will own maintaining this host?

i'm happy to maintain both the host and the bot.

Comment 8

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Attach or email me your ssh public key and I'll get something set up for you.

Comment 9

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to matthew zeier [:mrz] from comment #8)
> Attach or email me your ssh public key and I'll get something set up for you.

thanks.  i've emailed my public key.

Comment 10

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

glob -

We had also had a discussion about taking over Firebot, including whether or not to maintain the current code. Check it out here - https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/taking-over-firebot/415 - I'm sure some of our thoughts will be useful to you, or you've already thought the same things ;)

Comment 11

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to Majken Connor [Kensie] from comment #10)
> We had also had a discussion about taking over Firebot, including whether or
> not to maintain the current code.

thanks.

i don't have any desire to make changes to the firebot codebase beyond what is required to get it running on new infra :)  happy to help with firebot/bugbot gap analysis by documenting the firebot features/modules.

Comment 12

[:glob ✱]

thanks everyone -- i have access to the host, and i'm busy deploying firebot.

Comment 13

[:glob ✱]

firebot is now running on this host :)