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Thank you, cavac, for taking this on so that we can have a clean (more or less) transition. When I took these over, the previous iterations had been dead for some time, so the transition had a long period of not-working-at-all. This is a better plan :)

I'm still transitioning stuff from my old PC to my new PC, this will not move at all, though. But neither will the old machine be decommissioned, though it will bounce a few times yet as I physically move it around. So there's time, though it will be a bit flaky (more than normal) for a bit :)

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Re^3: CB stats, Last hour of CB
by cavac (Prior) on Nov 20, 2023 at 13:15 UTC

    It all starts to come together. Ye old chatterbot now has a picture on his profile.

    The upload code works mostly, except for a couple of missing timezone conversions and missing information lines. chatterbot dev page

    If everything runs stable for a couple of days, i'll tell my live system (i have two installations of that stuff) to start trying to upload to the official "last hours" page, but will get "permission denied" errors. Then i'll ask the gods to take over the official "last hour" page. Basically, what will happen is that you keep running your upload code until you start getting "permission denied" errors, while my code suddenly gets the permission to upload it's updates. Should be a completely smooth transition from the users point of view.

    (Yes, i know, that kind of "treat it as mission critical code" isn't strictly required. But hey, i don't get many opportunities to plan and execute a controlled takeover/hot swap of an existing system. Treating it as "mission critical" gives me a nice chance to check my strategies and learn from my mistakes.)

    The new "CB Stats" page is a bit more complicated, it's not as important as the chatlog itself. If that doesn't provide all the features right away, it's not a big deal.

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      (Yes, i know, that kind of "treat it as mission critical code" isn't strictly required. But hey, i don't get many opportunities to plan and execute a controlled takeover/hot swap of an existing system. Treating it as "mission critical" gives me a nice chance to check my strategies and learn from my mistakes.)

      Dude, the whole point of projects like this is to learn something. If you're not learning, you should be getting paid. (Not to say you can't be learning while also being paid.) I used the CB stats to learn a whole host of techniques and skills, you should absolutely abuse the opportunity to practice a skill that, should it blow up when it matters, might be catastrophic, but here, meh, pretty minor. :)

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      Awesome. Thank you for doing all that!

      Couple questions/suggestions:

      How about if we also have a page here on pm for the cb stats which your chatterbot could update?

      If you're in the mode of incorporating more features into your bot, I think you should take a look at the old im2, which was a karma bot, among other things. It might have some features you'd like to implement.

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        Hmm, i'd have to move around a bit of code. Basically, move stats generation from the webgui to a helpers class that can also be accessed by the worker backend. But that shouldn't be much of a problem, i guess a couple of hours at most. Let's do it!

        If possible, i would like, just as with "last hour", have TWO nodes. One for "dev", one for "live". This makes it much easier to run both systems at the same time and test out new features. That's how my own server is setup. (live at cav.ac, dev at test.cav.ac)

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