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18F / standup-slack-bot

A Slack bot to streamline team standup without disturbing the overall flow of conversation
https://standup-slack-bot.app.cloud.gov/
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Bot reports are tremendously verbose #132

Closed cromulus closed 7 years ago

cromulus commented 7 years ago

Our slack channel reports both individual responses as well as updating the summary... For larger teams, this means that the summary is several pages above where the last person responded.

For the individual report, all I want to know is that the person responded, and the original, first summary updates appropriately.

It seems we could achieve the goals of the standup bot with it being a whole heck of a lot less verbose.

cromulus commented 7 years ago

Essentially, this line: https://github.com/18F/standup-slack-bot/blob/develop/lib/helpers/updateChannelReport.js#L25

Results in the "report" being posted several times over in the channel, which gets super noisy.

mgwalker commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the report, and apologies for not responding sooner! We agree, FWIW, but we haven't had time to fix it.

One thing we've considered is an option to disable the updates altogether. Another thing we've thought about is since Slack added threads, the bot could add standup reports to a thread. Then they'd be consolidated in one place and take up even less real estate.

mgwalker commented 7 years ago

Closing with #140. Feel free to comment, reopen, or create a new issue if this isn't helpful.