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Okay, sorry ahead of time for being a Debbie downer here, but there are no work-related or useful scripts in the repository. All the great stuff they talk about running builds, deploying code, checking on servers, getting test results are not there. I don't see youtube and google images lookups all that useful as a chatbot IMHO. So, what am I missing? It seems like people think this is cool, but I guess I don't get it.

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We're just shipping the foundation right now. A lot of our other stuff is tied to a substantial amount of other services (our CI, our special build layer, various other home-grown services, etc). Over time — and judging from Twitter, very quickly! — github.com/github/hubot-scripts will have a much more comprehensive set of scripts.

Well that's good to hear. I didn't mean to sound like a dick by any means, I just didn't expect to only see mustache generators. Your posts on it particularly in your blog made me excited to look at the repo for the infrastructure / CI components.

Looking forward to the future.

And dumb question here probably, but was I wrong in thinking that it was originally written in Ruby?

We love Ruby, but Hubot's always been written in Node.js. (Today's Hubot was rewritten to CoffeeScript, which we also love.)

We're still in the process of porting a lot of stuff over from old-hubot, so we'll be making a lot more contributions ourselves yet.

Bah, my memory did not serve me well then. Looking at the scripts they are certainly clean now, so kudos on the re-write!

Hope you guys / gals are ready for a pull-request torrent this week!

I noticed that as well. Just glancing through the code it looks like they're going to have to add rudimentary configuration management before that can happen. Right now every piece of pertinent information about how and where to connect is stored in environment variables.

You can't really have CI monitoring or automation without somewhere to store the login info, at the very least.

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