spack-bot vs spackbot

[adamjstewart]

The bot that comments on PRs is named @spack-bot, but the command to run it is named @spackbot. This is already leading to confusion: spack/spack#25219 (comment)

Can they have the same name? Or can the bot respond to both @spack-bot and @spackbot?

[haampie]

Would be nice if it autocompleted better, you have to enter @spackb before @spackbot is suggested

[adamjstewart]

I don't think there's much we can do about auto-completion other than to change the name so that it doesn't start with spack.

[haampie]

@backspot

[vsoch]

I had the bot responding to a hard coded list before but @tgamblin didn't like that and we changed to https://github.com/spack/spack-bot/blob/313c37e289be583175133597b458c9748997046e/spackbot/helpers.py#L32. So if y'all want to decide on a method that you like (hard coding again, or perhaps just changing the username to spackbot because we don't need the dash, or making the bot's name spack-bot, or removing hyphens before checking, that works for me).

[vsoch]

Personally I like "spackbot" because hyphens are yucky.

[vsoch]

Personally I’d just rename the app and call it a day.

[adamjstewart]

I'm fine with that solution.

[tgamblin]

I think we should rename the app and the repo - sound good? I can do it

[tldahlgren]

I think we should rename the app and the repo - sound good? I can do it

The consistency will be nice 6+ months down the line. 😁

[tgamblin]

ok repo is renamed...

[tgamblin]

Ok now I remember why there is a discrepancy. Apps are in the same namespace as user accounts, and apps cannot be @'d. What that means is you cannot just have an app called spackbot if you want to @ the thing -- you have to have a user called spackbot to @. And you cannot have both an app and a user called spackbot.

I renamed the app to spackbot-app. I dunno what else we can really do -- if there is another name people like then lemme know.

[tgamblin]

Closing this until someone comes up with a decent suggestion.