Big Boy Overhaul

Created by: agraubert

New End-User Features:

• Added a new Gamba command suite. This works a lot like Polls, but you bet tokens. This adds the !gamba, !bet, and !resolve commands
• The Poll system is much nicer. It now features live-updating messages and will keep track of the poll state between restarts
• Removed the ignore/unignore commands. See below for new functionality
• Added !remind command to send you a reminder at a specified future date
• Removed the Bug, Fundraising, and Overwatch command suites

New API Features:

• Command arguments are now handed as individual arguments instead of attributes on an args namespace object
• Refactored the old add-commands-as-a-weird-function to CommandSuite objects. These are a Beymax equivalent to Discord.py's Cogs
• Added migrations as a Bot hook. Migrations run once on the after:ready event.
• Added a new dispatch_future system to dispatch arbitrary events at any date/time. Beymax guarantees that events will be dispatched at most 30 seconds after the scheduled time
• Switched to Async-safe DBView class instead of old Databases. DBView is a robust class to get race-free write access to specific database tables, while allowing read access to the rest of the database.
  • Known Bug: DBView is not reentrant, and can therefore cause deadlock if a called function attempts to gain write access to a table that the caller currently has locked. Be careful!
• All users who have ever had a balance of tokens accrue one token per day. If you are at a zero or negative balance, you will reset to 1 token instead of just gaining one
• The ignore_role config option now works differently:
  • Instead of being applied to ignored users, Beymax will ignore all users who have this role
  • Can be either a single roll name/ID or a list
  • On startup or on creation/deletion of roles, Beymax will reparse this information
  • As soon as a user has one of these roles granted/revoked, Beymax will update its behavior accordingly
• Added _dropdb command to, well, drop database tables
• Added _sudo command to allow you to send messages and have Beymax interpret them as being from another user.
  • Known limitation: If you are sudoing as Beymax, you can only send commands, not arbitrary messages. Non-command messages will be ignored by Beymax internally
• Renamed CoreBot to Client
• Tasks can now dynamically set their own intervals on the fly
• Permissions are now parsed more intelligently, and Beymax tracks the state of user/role name -> ID mappings in case users change their
• wait_for('message', ...) now preempts special message handlers. This resolves an issue with games where a message would be handled as input to the game, and as a response to a prompt from beymax
• The task runner is now a coroutine, instead of a background thread. It also dynamically adjusts its interval to minimize overshoot on scheduled tasks
• Added $EMOJIFY interpolator key. This substitutes to an empty string but will enable replacing :emoji: with appropriate unicode characters. This behavior will become default in the future

Other Changes:

• Update discord.py to 1.6.0. I know 1.7.X is out, by now, but that is going to be a smaller UTH update
• Renamed everything internally from server(s) to guild(s) to match Discord API change
• Cleaned up the BaseGame code, and added an attribute to provide instructions for your game
• Got rid of XP and levels
• Polished a lot of the blackjack code
• Improved message parsing and score detection of the Z-machine story system
• Slight improvements to the help system
• The Party system was refactored to use the new future-dispatch feature instead of having a periodic task
• Removed the __qualname__ entry in the task list
• Fixed a bug where coroutines subscribed to multiple events could only unsubscribe from the most recently subscribed event
• Moved much of Beymax's startup sequence into a one-time event subscription instead of overriding on_ready
• Streamlined Beymax's startup sequence