[01:15] <arand_> I've suggested a couple of times a !bootinfoscript factoid, was there reasons not to add it or was it simply overlooked?
[01:21] <IdleOne> arand: join #ubuntu-ops, see if someone there can help and maybe add the factoid. I have to go have dinner now.
[01:21] <arand> ok
[04:34] <arand> Floodbot missing in #ubuntu?
[05:04] <syrinx_> anyone hanging around here?
[05:04] <IdleOne> what's up syrinx_
[05:05] <syrinx_> well, yesterday I talked to tsimpson about becoming an OP
[05:05] <syrinx_> today, I signed the CoC
[05:05] <IdleOne> ok
[05:05] <syrinx_> what next?
[05:06] <IdleOne> well the way it normally works is that when the powers that be see a need for ops they put out a call for ops on the mailing list asking for people to nominate themselves
[05:06] <syrinx_> ah...
[05:06] <syrinx_> hang tight for now?
[05:06] <IdleOne> you applied to the team on launchpad?
[05:06] <syrinx_> no sir, should I?
[05:06] <IdleOne> I believe that is what the instructions say
[05:07] <IdleOne> read them again and follow all the steps/links
[05:07] <IdleOne> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/OperatorRequirements
[05:08] <syrinx_> yes, it does. doing that now
[05:08] <IdleOne> So make sure you fill all the requirements and hang tight, keep an eye out for "call for ops" on the mailing list
[05:09] <syrinx_> thanks IdleOne
[05:09] <syrinx_> appreciate it very much
[05:09] <IdleOne> welcome
[12:29] <jussi> o/
[12:29] <jussi> topyli: tsimpson elky nhandler. LjL is interested in getting some bots cloaked with ubuntu cloaks, what do you think?
[12:29] <LjL> hi. i'd like to request ubuntu bot cloaks for BestBot and MetaBot. code is open source (although i'm not sure where BestBot is, but it's supposed to be open source anyway)
[12:30] <tsimpson> I'm for the bots being cloaked
[12:30] <jussi> LjL: Be nice if we can get those codebases into the ubuntu bots on lp project.
[12:30] <LjL> jussi: MetaBot is there
[12:31] <jussi> ok, great, need to find bestbot then :)
[12:31] <jussi> LjL: you have enough access over there right?
[12:31] <LjL> i think so
[12:32] <LjL> eventually i'd like to make BestBot an ubottu plugin. but then i've been planning that for like years and never did it :P
[12:32] <jussi> :P
[12:32] <jussi> LjL: is bestbot in python? :P
[12:33] <LjL> no, it's php, both bestbot and metabot are the same basic codebase as the floodbots - i'd have to rewrite it
[12:35] <LjL> but having it in ubottu would have the important (imo) benefit that you could use parts of it in #ubuntu, specifically what's now "list every xyz". in my mind it'd eventually replace those factoids that just list a ton of packages in a category
[12:42] <nhandler> jussi: Per our current cloaking policy, I see no reason that we can't cloak them. As for the ubuntu bots project, I still think we need to clarify what bots can go in there (i.e. I was told awhile ago that classbot couldn't go there currentl, but that the goal was to have all ubuntu ots there at some point in the future)
[12:43] <tsimpson> nhandler: why can't classbot go there?
[12:45] <nhandler> tsimpson: That was justwhat either you or ussi told me when I asked when classbot first became somewhat stable
[12:45] <jussi> I see no reason for it not to be there
[12:45] <tsimpson> the only issue I see is that we'd have to add the maintainers of classbot to the ~ubuntu-bots team
[12:46] <tsimpson> btw, I did look into having the ubuntu-bots project be a "umbrella" project for different bots, but it'd end up being just superficial (a "project" with just a list of other project and nothing shared between them)
[12:47] <nhandler> tsimpson: Didn't LP recently add the ability to have an LP admin turn a project into an umbrella project like that?
[12:47] <tsimpson> probably, but it won't really do us much good
[12:48] <tsimpson> they'd still all just be separate projects, that just happen to be listed on one page
[12:49] <tsimpson> umbrella projects just show that projects are related, but there is nothing shared between projects
[12:49] <tsimpson> so there would still be separate code hosting, but tracking, teams, etc
[12:50] <tsimpson> basically umbrella projects *only* contain a list of other projects, nothing else
[12:50] <tsimpson> at least, that's what I was told when I asked a few months back