Load order

Yetibot loads itself in a particular order. The database should be initialized and schemas loaded as soon as possible, since many models load themselves based on it. Logging is also saved to db, and we want to start logging as soon as possible.

db namespaces

All database schemas should live in db namespaces:

• yetibot.db.*
• yetibot.core.db.*
• *.plugins.db.*

The yetibot.core.db namespace will map over these, building up their schemas if available.

logging

start fn is called on yetibot.core.logging to initialize its database-appender.

chat adapters

Chat adapters are loaded next. Their start functions are called, which connects to the chat protocol and bootstraps its users into the users model.

observers and commands

Finally, observers and commands are loaded. These typically require models and api namespaces, which may make network or database calls to bootstrap data.