Also a bunch of misc cleaning

loader, rules: use (pre)trigger.ctcp instead of tags

Add workaround for excessive whitespace in MediaWiki excerpts (fixes #2259)

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

Also fixes the table becoming narrower after unflipping.

config: don't manually hunt for CA paths

url: remove traceback from debug log when fetching URL fails

config: default to use_ssl=True, port=6697

docs: bump furo theme version

docs: use `sphinx-rfcsection` plugin (and fix some typos)

bot, irc: IRC backend using asyncio

As noted by dgw, it's better to replace Sopel's owner/dev/users
nicks by more neutral references...

SQLAlchemy 1.4 (used by Sopel) defines a cross-compatible new style to
query the database using ...

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

docs: split files into subfolders

* split and replace package/api.rst
* split package/irc.rst
* minor adaptation of package's bot....

rules: drop `draft/bot` tag

I had a branch going with a later beta, then the first stable version,
but apparently kept forge...

pronouns: fetch list from the pronoun.is GitHub repo at start

Inspiration for the actual prefix-finding:
https://www.techiedelight.com/shortest-unique-prefix/

We don't have to wait until the 12th of Never for them to launch an API.
Parsing tab-separated v...

events: rename and extend invite-related numerics

seen: modify/fix stored value & delta calculation for Aware `trigger.time`

search: replace git.io link with shortcut defined on sopel.chat

Thought about the redirects a bit more, and really didn't like any of my
ideas for a keyword. Si...

Bot Mode spec has been ratified (ircv3/ircv3-specifications#495). Since
we haven't published a r...

search: fix/tweak miscellaneous code style issues

tell: catch missing message before it causes an exception

Turns out it was pretty easy to set up a redirect to anything at all
since sopel.chat runs on Ne...

This goes along with ircdocs/modern-irc#177, which explains the change.

See also ircdocs/modern...

deps: forget about `python_version` specifier for `importlib_metadata`

find: shameless micro-optimizations

My clean install of Python 3.10 on Ubuntu 20.04 (via deadsnakes/ppa)
came with an old version of...

I once noticed that the order of operations in `collectlines()` didn't
really make sense, and I'...

test: add some missing attributes to loader tests

This is for timezone safety.

Co-authored-by: Exirel <[email protected]>

Can't put nickname commands here because the pytest plugin doesn't
handle them. That'll be a fut...

core: replace `pkg_resources` with `importlib.metadata`

We weren't checking the presence/absence of `echo` or `allow_bots` attrs
or verifying that the c...

It's not a "setuptools entry point"; it's an "entry point group".

As the Python packaging docs say, entry points are now a PyPA-defined
interoperability specifica...

Adapted the `get_meta_description()` for `EntryPointPlugin` to return
the expected format. Could...

Unfortunately this one is *not* yet part of the stdlib in any Python
release, but there's no poi...

Needs a backport package until we no longer support Python 3.7; stdlib
gained `importlib.metadat...

Aside from removing the shadowing of `bytes`, the only notable change is
that `bing_search()` no...

config: deprecate using a comma instead of a newline in ListAttribute

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

tools: move memory classes to tools.memories

Note: it is possible to keep the same type hint because
SopelIdentifierMemory is a subclass of d...

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sopel: move deprecated() to sopel.lifecycle

docs: split bot documentation into separate files with minor fix

The `deprecated()` function is used everywhere, whenever we need to
deprecate something. Sometim...

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

search: consistently warn about excessive "site:" operators if no results

irc: fix some typos & formatting in docstrings

logger: convert newlines to spaces in IRC logging handler

Just seems best to be consistent across all commands.

Parity with DuckDuckGo behavior, since both search engines can return
weird (or no) results if t...

url: bring additional sanity and calm to log output

xkcd: account for Bing search returning mobile URLs

reddit: handle image preview links

I noticed a couple of typos, but decided to give the whole file a good
once-over to make a pull ...

The sky is not falling if this plugin can't connect to a found URL, nor
is it The End Of The Wor...

Interestingly, adding '-site:m.xkcd.com' made Bing return NO results,
not the normal (non-mobile...

translate: update `langcode()` helper to support Chinese

loader, plugin, plugins.rules: add `allow_bots` decorator

adminchannel, coretasks: improve handling of bot's current nick

These didn't get any brief mention on the "Anatomy of a plugin" page,
like most of their sibling...

Noted some gaps in the test suite regarding the loader setting defaults
for certain callable att...

irc: implement CHANTYPES parameter for ISUPPORT

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>