Nick

This is most likely due to a plugin starting a thread and not stopping it when the bot shuts down. Python won't force background threads to exit when the main...

Mostly because the bot was written with 2.7 in mind. At the time, python 3 wasn't a viable choice for our environment, and bot frameworks at the time were written...

A periodic save would definitely be good to have. It was probably just an oversight on my part that it doesn't currently do so. Current thinking is that plugins can...

I think I had written it this way to make use of magic in other plugins. I don't believe any of the core plugins use it, so changing it should...

I have no idea how frequently this occurs, but I would assume anytime Slack does a deploy. As for moving the restart to the process manager - systemd/supervisor/docker/etc - I...