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Slack Stand-Up Bot

Hi! I'm a friendly Slack bot who will run stand ups for you! I'll even summarize everything and post summaries in the channel of your choosing!

Summaries

After everyone has checked in, I'll post a summary message in a channel of your choice. You can tell me which channel by using the report in command (details down there in the Commands section). Just make sure to invite me to the reporting channel first, I may be a robot but I still have feelings.

If the summary is too long, I'll split it across a few posts. These are true Slack Posts, so searchable and support markdown.

Commands

Type @bot help to get a list of these commands.

Running a stand up:

@bot start: Start a stand up.

@bot end: End a stand up that's in progress. Stand ups will end on their own once everyone has reported, so this is only if you need to end early.

@bot report in #channel: Set a channel for post stand up reports. By default I'll use the channel the stand up started in. I have a pretty good memory, so you only need to tell me once :)

@bot where do you report?: I'll tell you the which channel I'll post summary reports to..

skip: Use this during a stand up to skip a user.

Adding and removing team members:

I'll keep track of your team for you across standups!

@bot members: Lists the current members of the team.

@bot join: Adds you to the team.

@bot leave: Removes you from the team.

@bot remove @user: Removes another user from the team.

Set Up

Clone this repo and deploy it to your favorite server. I'm all set up for Heroku in case that's your thing. Since I need to remember stuff, I'll need access to a Redis server too.

Go to this page set me up in Slack: https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot

Then you'll need to set two environment variables on your server:

SLACK_API_TOKEN: Your Slack API token that you got from the Slack bot page.

REDIS_URL: The URL to the Redis server that I'll use for my tremendous robot brain (don't worry, I don't put much there).