Winding down to release 2.1 of BNU-Bot

[Scott]

The 2.1 milestone is coming up soon; it has been a long road to get here, and I've learned a lot in the process - for example, the importance of running test cases before committing code. I can't thank all the beta testers enough for their continued support; finding all of the bugs you guys did without your help would have been impossible.

As a quick recap, here are a few things that were on the 2.1 milestone to-do list:

Votekick, voteban, wildcard kick/bans
Growl! For those that don't know, Growl is an OSX application that displays popup notifications in various ways, and is integrated in to many, many OSX applications. Getting this to work properly from Java code was no easy task
Quick add - !add BNU-Camel@Azeroth 100 does not require explicitly creating an account for the user (it is done automatically)
BNetUser.toString() customization; you can now choose to have BNUBot classic style usernames, traditional usernames, or a number of new options
Multiple commands on one line, separated by semicolons
Quick rejoin command
/r (reply) and /rw (rewhisper), an idea borrowed from StealthBot
Profile editor - the thing no one seems to be able to use!
The addalias command
Database creation wizard. The first time you run BNU-Bot, you'll now get a walkthrough for setting up one account and up to 5 aliases with the database.

Not to mention the hundreds of bugs (a small subset of which can be viewed here) that have been zapped along the way!

[John]

I used /r reply before Stealthbot, and I stole it from Chewbacca Bot.

[Scott]

It was in my first bot, DA-Bot, too - before BNU even started.

[John]

It was in my first bot, DA-Bot, too - before BNU even started.

I am aware.

[Bnu-Sorceress]

As far as the profile editor goes, I've actually never had a problem with it. It works just fine for me... haha.

[Scott]

It tends to work about 50% of the time for me. I tried to figure out what the problem was by packing logging the data, and determined that it isn't a bug with the bot.