thinko on my part, this was making the regex for matching all nicks to
'|nick' when the field is '', because of split producing ['']. in
particular this was making markov trigger on every line
this is necessary for supporting multiple irc servers in one bot config.
this also has the side effect of requiring some code in ircbot and
markov which autocreates channels to also include the server (retrieved
via the connection). this will again help keep channels coherent for
multi-server arrangements
the twitter bot change here is untested but seems like the right idea (I
haven't used the twitter package in forever)
this is the first step in trying to get the bot to support multiple
servers with different channels, countdown triggers, and so on
this also ends up affecting some configuration around:
* dispatch
* markov
* admin privmsg form
before we were just adding words until we hit the min/max, now let's
also count the number of sentences and have a cutoff there, if we don't
want the whole appending thing no matter what
this is just a basic port of the tables into django models right now.
there's some serious slowness in the state creation that i need to fix
before this does anything, but i want to get this in a real database on
a real linode before i go too much further, so here it is
