contrib: remove ciabot

Almost a year ago the CIA service irrevocably crashed.  The CIA author
had plans to revive the service, but the effort has since sunk without
trace.

Projects tend to use "irker" instead these days.  Repository hook
scripts for irker ship with the irker distribution.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

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diff --git a/contrib/ciabot/INSTALL b/contrib/ciabot/INSTALL
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-= Installation instructions =
-
-Two scripts are included.  The Python one (ciabot.py) is faster and
-more capable; the shell one (ciabot.sh) is a fallback in case Python
-gives your git hosting site indigestion. (I know of no such sites.)
-
-It is no longer necessary to modify the script in order to put it
-in place; in fact, this is now discouraged. It is entirely
-configurable with the following git config variables:
-
-ciabot.project = name of the project
-ciabot.repo = name of the project repo for gitweb/cgit purposes
-ciabot.xmlrpc  = if true, ship notifications via XML-RPC
-ciabot.revformat = format in which the revision is shown
-
-The revformat variable may have the following values
-raw -> full hex ID of commit
-short -> first 12 chars of hex ID
-describe -> describe relative to last tag, falling back to short
-
-ciabot.project defaults to the directory name of the repository toplevel.
-ciabot.repo defaults to ciabot.project lowercased.
-ciabot.xmlrpc defaults to True
-ciabot.revformat defaults to 'describe'.
-
-This means that in the normal case you need not do any configuration at all,
-however setting ciabot.project will allow the hook to run slightly faster.
-
-Once you've set these variables, try your script with -n to see the
-notification message dumped to stdout and verify that it looks sane.
-
-To live-test these scripts, your project needs to have been registered with
-the CIA site.  Here are the steps:
-
-1. Open an IRC window on irc://freenode/commits or your registered
-   project IRC channel.
-
-2. Run ciabot.py and/or ciabot.sh from any directory under git
-   control.
-
-You should see a notification on the channel for your most recent commit.
-
-After verifying correct function, install one of these scripts either
-in a post-commit hook or in an update hook.
-
-In post-commit, run it without arguments. It will query for
-current HEAD and the latest commit ID to get the information it
-needs.
-
-In update, call it with a refname followed by a list of commits:
-You want to reverse the order git rev-list emits because it lists
-from most recent to oldest.
-
-/path/to/ciabot.py ${refname} $(git rev-list ${oldhead}..${newhead} | tac)