The project maintains a number of IRC bots designed to improve the user/community experience on IRC. At present, they are only deployed on the Libera.Chat IRC network.

Official %%FreeBSD%% IRC bots always have the ''%%freebsd/bot/<nickname>%%'' hostmask cloak, with a link in their ''%%/whois%%'' information pointing to this page.

===== Features =====

==== Live ====

Bot: %%VimDiesel%%

  * New issues created in [[/Bugzilla]] are announced in channel. Active: #freebsd-bugs
  * URL title "snarfer". Return the %%<%%title> of URL's observed in channel. Active: Any channel the bot is joined.
  * Return man(ual) page information to the channel (or user) for the ''%%!man <query>[sektion]%%'' command. Active: Any channel the bot is joined.
  * Bugzilla Issue Information. Active: Any channel the bot is joined.
    * Returns (id, title, url) to the channel (or user) when it sees an Issue ID (''%%~ <bug|issue|pr>[ ][#]<integer>%%'') in a message
    * Returns (id, title, url) to the channel (or user) for the ''%%!issue <ID>%%'' command
    * 

Bot: %%MattDaemon%%

  * %%MeetBot%%, meeting plugin. Active: Any channel the bot is joined.

==== In Development ====

  * None at the moment

==== Original Brainstorm ====

  * [[IRC/BotBrainstorm]]

===== Bots =====

==== VimDiesel ====

%%VimDiesel%% is the nickname of a "production" instance of IRC bot code.

==== MattDaemon ====

%%MattDaemon%% is the nickname of a "production" instance of IRC bot code.

==== TinHead ====

%%TinHead%% is the nickname of the "development" instance of IRC bot code used for testing. It is experimental in nature.

==== Other ====

Other registered bot names:

  * If you have (geeky, witty, !actor) ideas for bot nicknames, let us know!

===== Team =====

  * [[/RodrigoHernandez|RodrigoHernandez]] (dandare) (Lead)

Discussion, development and testing takes place in #freebsd-labs