• Will respond to most common english forms of the word "dad"
• Succinctly answers any question addressed to him
• Gives witty responses
• Has least favorite kids
• Loves telling jokes*

• Dad will say what you want it to, who you want it to
  • Just say "dad, say <target user/channel>: "
  • Without location specified, it speaks to the channel it's connected to
• "Ground/Unground" users so dad won't respond to them

• Command to change channels
• Cleanup of dadbot.go overall
• Add dad, help for list of admin commands
• Better way to save config?
• Bring back joke getting scripts
• Attempt reconnect on drop
• Make mom more cynical. ex: "I love mom" -> "Ok"
• Use more \b in regex
• Listen briefly before speaking to see if any other bots were triggered by the message first, and ignore if one was
• Add a list to track bots
• Track users by name and IP

• None?

• All regex is tested with the case-insensitive flag
• All responses and corresponding regex can be found in conf.json
• If text reuse is needed in a response, put the regex for the part to reuse in the Variable section of the Regex
• If text reuse is not needed, leave everything inside the Trigger regex and the Variable section blank
• Four fill-ins exist for responses:
  • #a -> adds an article "a" or "an" to the existing message
  • #c -> adds a response generated from an action handler
  • #u -> adds the name of the sender
  • #v -> adds the content caught by the Variable regex

• Disclaimer: Dad Bot is built and maintained using go version 1.8.1.

• Windows

  • Visit https://golang.org/dl/ and download your preferred version of the .msi installer
  • ???
  • Profit
  • Honestly I don't remember / care to figure it out again. It was probably pretty easy though. I mostly did this setup section to have something good on record for the Ubuntu setup
  • Continue to Both systems for the final steps once Go is set up

• Linux (Only tested on Ubuntu)

  • Install Go Version Manager for Ubuntu via "bash < <(curl -s -S -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moovweb/gvm/master/binscripts/gvm-installer)"
  • Edit ~/.bashrc and source the newly install .gvm directory '[[ -s "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm"'
  • Check to make sure gvm is installed via "gvm version"
  • View all available versions via "gvm listall"
  • You MUST install Go version 1.4 before installing any version above that.
  • gvm install go1.4 -B
  • gvm use go1.4
  • export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=$GOROOT
  • gvm install go(desired 1.5+ version)
  • gvm use go(desired 1.5+ version)
  • Continue to Both systems for the final steps once Go is set up

• Both systems

  • Once Go is installed, run "go get github.com/alecwest/godaddyirc" and everything should download
  • If on windows, you'll get an additional error about some code in hellabot, which should just need a modification to recon_windows.go (lowercase the HijackSession function)
  • After making sure Dad Bot conf.json is set up to point to the right server and channel, run "go run dad.go" or "go run mom.go"

* At a limited rate. Dad can only tell so many jokes at one time.