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We should have a main entry point for launching the bot and where all modules will eventually be centralized.

Setup CI on travis

What python versions do we want to support? 3.6+?

For the pro command to what extent do we imagine users will use it for?

Originally when I wrote this it was meant to just help users find out who can help with X.
Do we want to make it simple like this or add more on top?

We want to serve a large programming community with varying competency. For this reason I would like to have a core bot built in Python using discord.py, and very quickly dispatch in a generic way into modules that can be written in any language. The onus is on the contributor to integrate whatever language they're using.

I think the core bot should look something like this:

from modules import *

commands = {
    'weather': weather.weather,
    'eval': runner.evaluate,
}

async def on_message_or_whatever():
    if command in commands:
        post_message(commands[payload]())

Where we pull in everything with a modules directory, which will contain the entry point for every command, regardless of what language it is written in. We define a dictionary or config file that maps bot string commands such as !bot weather onto a Python function that takes the contents of the message, and returns the contents of a reply message. The primary job of the core bot is to dispatch to handlers, and to avoid making this overcomplicated so that people unfamiliar with Python have little difficulty integrating their work.

Migrate the following features from old AB.

• evaluation of various programming language through repl
• help command for various topics
• comic links
• pro command to help members connect with helpers in a language
• references storage command to display reference material
• server command to show server stats
• stream command for streamers
• uptime command
• voting command
• weather command for checking weather
• xkcd command