138896 - [GREETING] mozbot should be smarter about nick changes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135989

(Webtools Graveyard :: Mozbot, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

The 'seen' command reporting nick changes isn't highly useful since many times,
the user was seen later on the new nick saying other things.  Usually whenever a
nick change is reported back, users check the other nick as well, and the user
has usually been spotted more recently.  This would be a great feature IMO.

Consider the following fictitious scenario:

[11:59:57] <caillon> ok, brb
[12:00:00] --- caillon is now known as caillon_away
....
[15:00:00] <caillon_away> eek, my house is on fire!!!  I better go put it out.
[15:00:02] <-- caillon_away has quit (this isn't going in a bug report is it?)
...
[20:00:00] <IRCMonkey> botbot: seen caillon?

Actual results:
    <botbot> caillon was last seen 8 hours ago, changing nick to caillon_away

Expected results:
    <botbot> caillon was last seen 5 hours ago as caillon_away, 
             saying "eek, my house is on fire!!!  I better go put it out."


Technical consideration:
- We should not go into an endless loop in the case of changing a nick back and
forth.  Once we check a nick, we should not check it again.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I was thinking of dropping the nick watching code altogether. See bug 135989
comment 1.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135989 ***

Comment 3

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified Duplicate.