without this patch, if the helpbot channel would be set to None, it
would fail with:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower' (file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/willie/tools.py, line 362, in _lower)
the modules in -extras should be enabled by default so this makes
"None" a valid value that makes the module be ignored. we also default
to None so that, by default, the helpbot module doesn't do anything
without this patch, if the helpbot channel would be set to None, it would fail with:
the modules in -extras should be enabled by default so this makes "None" a valid value that makes the module be ignored. we also default to None so that, by default, the helpbot module doesn't do anything