[Feature] PR Slack notifier

[zackkrida]

Problem

We would like a way to see new Pull Requests in our PR slack channel. We don't want this integration to generate too much noise, these notifications are intended to be a quick, casual ping "hey, check out this new PR if you want!". The native GitHub Slack integration is not a good fit, it produces a "wall of text" response for each PR, with too much clutter.

Description

We could write a script in JS or Python in this repository, similar to @mkaz's work on TinkerNotifier, the bot for the tinker team (https://github.com/mkaz/octoack), that simply posts all new openverse-* repo pull requests to our slack channel, with a link.

We could use that bot, my initial thoughts for not using it are:

• It's written in Rust, which isn't used by our other projects, so makes it more difficult to edit if needed
• We'd have to host it, and I'm less sure about deploying/hosting/maintaining Rust applications, particularly as GitHub actions
• It's a relatively simple piece of code to re-implement, and we already have similar scripts for working with the GitHub API
• We might want to customize the output or emojis used 😆
• We don't need user-level tracking, as is included in that script

[AetherUnbound]

I thought we might be able to have the Tinker Bot accomplish this - do we need to write our own tool or can we use that?

[zackkrida]

Just updated my initial comment with more detail @AetherUnbound 😄

[AetherUnbound]

I wish there was a way to do a condensed preview using the default integration, but alas it seems like it's been an open issue for a while 😞

[mkaz]

I see it as an opportunity to play with Rust 😁

If you want to modify that existing script to support multiple accounts/repos/channels, I'll host it and run it on the same instance I'm running ours. I can help with any tweaks too, but also totally understand it's a simple easy script that rewriting in Python would be pretty quick.

[zackkrida]

I'll host it and run it on the same instance I'm running ours.

Well that sounds easy 😄 let's go for it!

[mkaz]

No Rust. 😢

[zackkrida]

🦀 😢

[dhruvkb]

Reject modernity. Return to shell. 😂