Done Reports - Open Source Bridge
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The document outlines the development of an IRC bot, called !done, designed to enhance team communication and status reporting for distributed teams. It describes the bot's functionality, including daily summary emails, user management challenges, and suggestions for usage. Additionally, it highlights the bot's architecture and modular nature, inviting attendees to sign up for a beta trial.
Done Reports - Open Source Bridge
- 1. Amber Case @caseorganic Aaron Parecki @aaronpk acase@esri.com Director, Esri PDX aparecki@esri.com CTO, Esri PDX !done - Hacking IRC Bots for Distributed Teams Open Source Bridge 2013!
- 3. Changes • Team dynamics change after 6 people • Scrum lasted about 4-5 days • Daily standups = cumbersome • Needed a way to quickly share status
- 5. > !done
- 6. First system 11/2012 - built quick system to let us use existing communication channel: IRC Team used IRC for years for group chat, also for server log messages to get a pulse on the system
- 7. How it works • During the day, the IRC bot asks you what you’ve done • You say !done what you did • At the end of the day, everyone gets an email with what everyone has done > !done squashed some bugs
- 8. At the end of the day, everyone gets an email with what everyone has !done > !done squashed some bugs Daily Email!
- 10. !done commands > !done pushed to production > !todo send out notification emails > !hero caseorganic for bringing Legos! > !blocking loud noises from construction work
- 11. And…
- 12. > !meme
- 13. > !meme to production | and beyond!
- 16. Adoption Someone sees our channel & asks “what is that?”
- 17. Scale! Lots of people want to use it! !donereports was built as a hack, we needed this quickly It was a database, IRC bot and a daily email, no other interface!
- 18. Aaron was the bottleneck: had to add users manually mysql> INSERT INTO users (username, email, nicks) VALUES ('aaronpk’,'aparecki@esri.com', 'aaronpk');
- 21. All Groups
- 24. Limechat
- 25. Limechat
- 26. Email report!
- 27. Documentation? No documentation! Invariably, someone else in the channel will explain how it works!
- 28. Usage Suggestion • If a group doesn’t use one of the features (such as !hero) then that email contains a tip at the bottom with a suggestion!
- 29. Building IRC Bots Use ZenIRC Bot! • Great framework for building bots! • github.com/zenirc Benefits • Modular – service oriented • Can write in any language and run under the same bot • Uses Redis PubSub to pass message between the different frameworks
- 30. Bot Architecture
- 31. Beta for OSBridge Attendees! Want to try it out? Sign up at donereports.com and we’ll let you in!
- 33. > !done presented at OSBridge! Amber Case @caseorganic Aaron Parecki @aaronpk acase@esri.com Director, Esri PDX aparecki@esri.com CTO, Esri PDX Tweet suggestions to @donereports! donereports.com