Well, simple_rss is removed from core (I believe yesterday). Plugin autobot no longer builds. Is someone interested in picking up the plugin and modify it to work again now that it gets unsupported all of a sudden. Well, not very suddenly, as we had, what, weeks of warning. But IMHO it is still bad form to terminate an official plugin suddenly and render it not working without caring for a smooth transition. How can we trust other official plugins now?

autobot was never official; only plugins under https://github.com/discourse/ are official. Note path https://github.com/vinkashq/discourse-autobot It should not be difficult to fix, though, if anyone from the community wants to adopt it.

[image] codinghorror: Note path GitHub - vinkashq/discourse-autobot: Automatic content creator for Discourse · GitHub I standard corrected. :bowing_man: I know it should be easy to fix for somebody with Ruby knowledge, but I don’t know how to add the simple_rss gem back on the plugin. Perhaps some other Ruby gurus can shed a light here? I can pick this up, my Ruby/Rails skills is practically non-existent.

Check out this post / topic; should be a simple fix I believe: [image] Plugin with custom gems Development Add your gem dependencies (all the dependency tree) to your plugin.rb file:

I’ll be waiting for someone to fix :smile:

I’m sure a #marketplace post would oil the wheels …

I can take a look at this when I get a chance. It won’t be this weekend but possibly sometime next week. As you say it looks like a simple fix.

[image] jamesmarkcook: I can take a look at this when I get a chance. Please get a chance? :wink:

I don’t use this plugin myself so I’ll get to it when I have some free time. Unlikely to be within the next two weeks though as I have prior engagements. If you need it done before then then I’d suggest posting in #marketplace

Anyone care to pick up the Autobot plugin?

Development

schungx (Stephen Chung) February 3, 2020, 2:47am 11

It is a “nice-to-have” but not crucial. I think we can wait…

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Instance broken cannot load such file simple-rss Self-hosting	2	876	December 9, 2017
Error when rebuilding/upgrading discourse due to bad plugin Self-hosting	1	1066	December 26, 2017
Transforming simple ruby files into a ruby gem Development	5	1152	December 14, 2018
Error after restarting the discourse Product Support	15	1673	June 11, 2017
Rebuilds fail for anyone with discourse-narrative-bot in app.yml Product Support	8	2808	May 27, 2017

Anyone care to pick up the Autobot plugin?

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