Fixing Mediabot v3 on Libera.Chat: Net::Async::IRC CAP Negotiation and the is_connected Race Condition

Background

Mediabot v3 uses Net::Async::IRC as its IRC backend, running inside an IO::Async event…

Hey everyone,

I’ve spent the last few sessions building a proper test framework for Mediabot v3, and I wanted to share what’s now in place because it covers quite a bit of ground.

Phase 1 — Unit test framework (no IRC required)

The first phase is a fully offline test suite. It uses a set …

Recent changes landed in the repository

After a long collaborative development session, here is a structured summary of what has just been integrated into the repository.

Reconnection cleanup

The reconnect() function previously duplicated the full Net::Async::IRC object constructio…

Fixed the weather command by properly handling UTF-8 characters, loading missing dependencies, and improving error handling. The command no longer crashes and now fails gracefully when the weather service is unavailable.

I don’t wanna be rude, but you may fix all the bugs before that, just sayin’

First post. This is the beginning of something nice. Be kind, have fun, and keep it clean.

After a long (very long) refactoring campaign, Mediabot finally migrated most of its command handling to a proper Context-based architecture.

Yes, this includes:

• removing years of implicit state,
• surviving strict mode,
• fixing bugs that existed longer than some IRC networks,
• and arg…

ALTER TABLE CHANNEL_PURGED ADD COLUMN purged_by VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL; ALTER TABLE CHANNEL_PURGED ADD COLUMN purged_at DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

I had to to do this for a long time, sorry guys

ALTER TABLE CHANNEL_LOG MODIFY ts DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

ALTER TABLE RESPONDERS MODIFY responder VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci, MODIFY answer TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLL…