Make it easier to find custom bot modules when using zulip-botserver

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Python library for the Zulip API.

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Make it easier to find custom bot modules when using zulip-botserver #636

Open timabbott opened 3 years ago

timabbott commented 3 years ago

I don't have a specific proposal, but probably some combination of documenting PYTHONPATH and adjusting how we search for bot modules is well worth doing to make it easier to help folks who are not deeply familiar with Python get bots running successfully. This thread has discussion https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/92-learning/topic/bot.20basics/near/1068769.

The first step for this issue is coming up with specific proposals for how to improve the implementation or documentation.

neiljp commented 3 years ago

I saw this and wondered if at least for our packaged bots the registration implementation which I started working on in #517 may be useful?

b-thebest commented 3 years ago

Can I work on this

neiljp commented 3 years ago

@b-thebest There is no firm plan for going about this yet, so as Tim mentioned we likely want a proposal for fixing it first - I'd suggest discussing ideas in #integrations on chat.zulip.org.

timabbott commented 3 years ago

@PIG208 do you think #708 resolved this? I guess we can leave this option open until wethe documentation feels good for this workflow.