Create the UKHAS omnidroid overlord

[danielrichman]

Currently we have

• zeusbot: irc logs for #highaltitude, some commands
• griffonbot: twitter hashtag watch, ukhas email list watch -> post notification to irc
• habitat build hooks: github http hook -> run sphinx-build, update homepage
• integrity: github http hook -> run nosetests
• github irc hook announces commits to #habhub

griffonbot is becoming a little... held together by monkeypatching, and there are atleast 4 irc bots involved; integrity and github irc join the channel, spam, then leave instantly rather than idling.

It'd be awesome to consolidate this into one single process managing all the things.

Fun idea: http://hubot.github.com/ - looks awesome and ideal; modular bot stuff with irc, twitter etc "inputs" and "outputs"; looks like we can add our hooks and targets trivially. Work could be done with couchdb for node.js, exec("nosetests") and other fun stuff. Idea: sandbox builds as a separate user? Bot can setup the git directory + SUID habitat-build binary.

Some cool stuff that the new thing would make it easier to add:

• SMS gateway (you know you want to)
• awesome irc commands: "name-of-bot: where is my balloon?!"
• name-of-bot: test my habitat branch, blah/bleh!
• name-of-bot: is everything ok? (i.e., run functional tests)
• launch & land announcements (autodetect based on telemetry in couchdb: "balloon has just launched :O!")

[adamgreig]

+1

[danielrichman]

related to #139

[danielrichman]

@jamescoxon suggested:
we should get griffonbot to post [habitat parse] errors to the channel on request

other ideas:

• automatically update channel topic with upcoming flight

[danielrichman]

Use the on demand indexing api: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/api.html to make the google custom search for zeusbot's logs update instantly.