Feature Requests : Enhance the bot

[YashKumarVerma]

Expected Behavior

• A handy bot to notify on gitter channel whenever a new issue/PR is made to the game.

Current Behavior

• The bot is a single statement which resides in deploy.sh and doesn't post messages when someone sends a pull request as it relies on auth token, which not every contributor has. Many new features can be added too.

Possible Solution

• Propose New Features for the Bot
• Fix the current issue (bot doesn't send messages when the variables $ROOM and $TOKEN are not defined in Travis by the user) :: Workaround / Alternate method can be considered a new feature too.

[pythongiant]

Alright so here's what I think we should do.

• Use the welcome bot for comments.
• Use the Stale bot to close old issues and PRs
• Use our gitter bot. ( The one which I have been making without the Issue comments) Is this alright. @YashKumarVerma @iamareebjamal

  @pythongiant maybe we can use some probot to do the commenting / github operation, and our curl to message on gitter

[pythongiant]

https://probot.github.io/apps/welcome/ https://probot.github.io/apps/stale/

[YashKumarVerma]

OR, you can use a webhook to a now.sh site (which can run basic node, etc) and then do all what you want from there.

https://zeit.co/now

[iamareebjamal]

@YashKumarVerma That's what probot makes easy to do

[pythongiant]

yeah my thoughts exactly

@YashKumarVerma That's what probot makes easy to do

[iamareebjamal]

probot is just a node library which allows you to react to github webhook events

[YashKumarVerma]

References

A complete list of bots can be found here https://probot.github.io/apps/

[pythongiant]

alright so now the bot does not post comments. It only messages to the gitter channel

[iamareebjamal]

Should take room ID from config

[pythongiant]

@iamareebjamal could you launch a PR please? I am unable to solve the issue

[pythongiant]

const config = await context.config('config.yml') app.log(config.room) gives me a null

[iamareebjamal]

Because your repo does not have a config file. Sounds good to me

[pythongiant]

It did have one

[pythongiant]

in the .github folder ( like the docs suggest )

[iamareebjamal]

I can't see it. Paste the link

[pythongiant]

Paste the link to what? The docs?

[pythongiant]

[iamareebjamal]

Paste link to your config file

[pythongiant]

its not on github.

[iamareebjamal]

Well that how can I debug it and how the bot is going to read it?

[YashKumarVerma]

@pythongiant it's supposed to be here

[YashKumarVerma]

@iamareebjamal i requested permission to install https://probot.github.io/apps/ci-reporter/.

How do I know it's granted ?

[iamareebjamal]

I granted it

[YashKumarVerma]

thanks ! @iamareebjamal

[YashKumarVerma]

@iamareebjamal i've made a new PR, still it doesn't trigger CI reporter ? Can you help ?

The config file is here https://github.com/fossasia/labyrinth/blob/master/.github/ci-reporter.yml PR: https://github.com/fossasia/labyrinth/pull/980

[iamareebjamal]

Actually, it doesn't need any config to work

[iamareebjamal]

https://github.com/JasonEtco/ci-reporter/issues/40

[pythongiant]

I meant it didnt work on the development server. The file was stored in .github folder on my root dir

Well that how can I debug it and how the bot is going to read it?

[pythongiant]

Hence no point pushing it to github

[iamareebjamal]

Then no point in discussing things that cannot be tested. Also, there are hundreds of probot apps, so there is no chance that there is something wrong in their API and everything is correct in your code

[YashKumarVerma]

@iamareebjamal Can you create a webhook which posts pull request and issue to https://labyrinth-bot.now.sh/ -- > source code at https://github.com/YashKumarVerma/labyrinth-message-bot

[iamareebjamal]

You can first complete the code and test on your repositories. However, I don't know why you would choose PHP and not do it via probot