changed default user agent to Scrapy/0.15 (+http://scrapy.org) and removed no longer needed BOT_VERSION setting

docs/topics/settings.rst

@@ -222,16 +222,6 @@ also for logging.
 It's automatically populated with your project name when you create your
 project with the :command:`startproject` command.
 
-.. setting:: BOT_VERSION
-
-BOT_VERSION
------------
-
-Default: ``1.0``
-
-The version of the bot implemented by this Scrapy project. This will be used to
-construct the User-Agent by default.
-
 .. setting:: CONCURRENT_ITEMS
 
 CONCURRENT_ITEMS
@@ -973,7 +963,7 @@ the default value for this setting see: http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urlle
 USER_AGENT
 ----------
 
-Default: ``"%s/%s" % (BOT_NAME, BOT_VERSION)``
+Default: ``"Scrapy/0.15 (+http://scrapy.org)"``
 
 The default User-Agent to use when crawling, unless overridden. 
 

scrapy/settings/default_settings.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import sys, os
 from os.path import join, abspath, dirname
 
 BOT_NAME = 'scrapybot'
-BOT_VERSION = '1.0'
 
 CLOSESPIDER_TIMEOUT = 0
 CLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT = 0
@@ -226,7 +225,7 @@ TEMPLATES_DIR = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), '..', 'templates'))
 
 URLLENGTH_LIMIT = 2083
 
-USER_AGENT = '%s/%s' % (BOT_NAME, BOT_VERSION)
+USER_AGENT = 'Scrapy/0.15 (+http://scrapy.org)'
 
 TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = 1
 TELNETCONSOLE_PORT = [6023, 6073]

scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 #
 
 BOT_NAME = '$project_name'
-BOT_VERSION = '1.0'
 
 SPIDER_MODULES = ['$project_name.spiders']
 NEWSPIDER_MODULE = '$project_name.spiders'
-USER_AGENT = '%s/%s' % (BOT_NAME, BOT_VERSION)
 
+# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent
+#USER_AGENT = '$project_name (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'