Can I Pair Bot

A GitHub bot (difference between bot and app) to find available pairs in a Slack channel.

Prepare Slack

1. Add Configuration in the Bots application page. There you'll be able to create a value that can used for the SLACK_API_TOKEN configuration variable.

Run

1. export SLACK_API_TOKEN=value found here
2. go run main.go

Run on CF

1. cf api https://api.run.pcfbeta.io
2. cf login --sso
3. cf target -o pivot-smuc -s development
4. cf push --no-start
5. cf set-env can-i-pair SLACK_API_TOKEN value found here
6. cf restage can-i-pair

Usage

1. Invite @can-i-pair to your channel
2. @can-i-pair help

Bugs

• Bot caches peoples status and does not update them. (Problem is probably in the library we use) (https://brandur.org/sdk)
• Does not work on private channels
• Does not consider time zones in scope of availability of the person

TODO

1. Choose a place to store code
2. Be able to run in a separate org / space
3. Make the @can-i-pair this week? work
4. Need a concourse pipeline
5. Find mechanism to address status caching in underlying slack go library
6. Establish token rotation schedule
7. Broadcast interests in projects/pairing activities
8. integrate some timezone magic

Maintainers

• @ScottMuc