Tools for PyCon-PC IRC meetings

Helpful tools for running the PyCon Program Commitee process. This runs an IRC bot we use during meetings, and a web interface to the review data.

Setup

First, the usual:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, the best way to configure this thing is through some environ variables (there are flags, but env is easier):

export PYCON_API_KEY='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
export PYCON_API_SECRET='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
export PYCON_WEBSITE_HOST='staging-pycon.python.org'
export PYCONBOT_SUPERUSERS=list,of,irc,superusers

The web app can be run in debug mode:

export PYCONBOT_DEBUG=1

Then to run the bot:

python runbot.py

The script needs to be able to import stuff from pycon_bot, so I usually:

export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`
python scripts/agenda.py

Or somesuch.

Architecture

Some brief notes on how all the bits fit together:

• runbot.py launches an IRC "driver" (pycon_bot.driver.PyConBot). This bot doesn't do much itself besides provide some utilities. Instead, almost all bot commands get delegated down to a "mode" object.
• A "mode" lives in pycon_bot.modes.<whatever> It should subclass pycon_bot.modes.base.BaseMode, and the mode class itself is named Node.
• The ",mode" command switches between modes - see pycon_bot.driver.PyConBot.handle_mode. Giving invalid modes fails in predictable ways, and since it imports arbitrary code you probably want to be careful about where you run this and who gets SU!

Running IN THE CLOUDS!

You can run this bad boy on Heroku:

heroku create <appname>
git push heroku master
heroku config:set PYCONBOT_SUPERUSERS=me,myself,andI
heroku config:set PYCONBOT_NICK='pycon_bot'
heroku config:set PYCON_API_KEY='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
heroku config:set PYCON_API_SECRET='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
heroku config:set PYCON_WEBSITE_HOST='us.pycon.org'

Then to change code just do the standard git push heroku master.