Le lama NUL SlackBot

This botkit-based slackbot allows your team to use a slack instance as a single entry point to various useful tools

• GitHub
• Jenkins
• Jira

It contains also lots of functions ... some more useful than others !

• Vacations / Sick leave tracking : use the bot to request vacations, and authorized members can validate or reject them
• Games for coffee breaks: Quizz and Trivia ( If you are a nazi, you can of course deactivate them )

Feel free to contribute :)

Commands

• GENERAL

  • help : Provide help for lamanul bot

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• GITHUB

  • members : List members of GIT_ORG
  • pull requests : List open pull requests of GIT_ORG/GIT_MAIN_REPO
  • search code CODE : Search in GIT_MAIN_REPO code (ex: search code Membership_m )
  • search doc KEYWORDS : Search in GIT_ORG doc (ex: search doc Installation pre-requisites )
  • repos : List repos of GIT_ORG
  • teams : List teams of GIT_ORG

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• JENKINS

  • jobs : List all jenkins jobs of JENKINS_MAIN_VIEW
  • running jobs : List all currently running jobs
  • build JOB_NAME : Launch a build for the job name specified ( ex: build DXCO4SF-1150-TST-DevRootOrg )

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• JIRA

  • current sprint : List open issues of the current sprint
  • issues of @USER : List open issues of a user
  • my issues : List your open issues

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• ABSENCES / VACATIONS / SICK LEAVE

  • absences (optional) @USER : List current and future absences
  • past absences (optional) @USER : Display past absences
  • my absences : List current and future absences
  • my past absences : Display past absences
  • add absences validator @USER : Adds an absence validator
  • remove absences validator @USER : Removes an absence validator

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• MISC

  • tell EXPRESSION : Retrieves value corresponding to expression (stored using remember command )
  • learn EXPRESSION=VALUE : Stores value corresponding to expression
  • start quizz : Launch an interactive quizz in the channel ( https://opentdb.com database )
  • start trivia : Launch an interactive trivia in the channel ( http://jservice.io database )

Installation

Create a slack app

• Create a new app on https://api.slack.com/

  • Interactive components: https://YOURAPPNAME.herokuapp.com/slack/receive (can be done after next step)

  • OAuth & Permissions

    • Callback URL: https://YOURAPPNAME.herokuapp.com/oauth (can be done after next step)

    • Permission scopes:

      • bot
      • channels:write
      • chat:write:bot
      • incoming-webhook
      • users:read
      • users:read.email
      • users.profile:read

• Activate bot user

Deploy this repo on Heroku

• Free heroku dyno will be fine

• Define the following environment variable in Heroku app

  • SLACK / BOTKIT / STORAGE

    • MY_HOST : Your app current host (ex: https://YOURAPPNAME.herokuapp.com )
    • token: Slack bot token ( ex: dfh54dg56hf46ggh64fg56gh564fg46fh)
    • CLIENT_ID : Slack App client Id (ex: 424298597.3788425242061)
    • CLIENT_SECRET : Slack App client secret (ex: 54575272754f2bb0468105513e60)
    • PORT : Your bot port (ex: 8765)
    • MONGOLAB_URI : URI of a mongo database (ex: mongodb://someuser:somepassword@ds2514444.mlab.com:55260/slackbot-lelamanul )
      • You can use mlab.com free 500mb database if you do not have a mongodb database

  • GitHub

    • GIT_USERNAME : Your github username ( ex: nvuillam )
    • GIT_PASSWORD : Your github password or token ( ex: dfdgdhgh6d46fg4h6fgfg6 )
    • GIT_ORG : Your main github organization (ex: Omnichannel-for-Salesforce )
    • GIT_MAIN_REPO : Your main github repository , containing source code. ( ex: DXCO4SF_Sources )

  • Jenkins

    • JENKINS_HOST : Your jenkins instance host ( ex: jenkins.mydomain.com:8080 )
    • JENKINS_USERNAME : Your jenkins username (ex: nvuillam )
    • JENKINS_PASSWORD : Your jenkins password or token ( ex: df46d4h6fg4h6fg4h6fg6 )
    • JENKINS_MAIN_VIEW : Your Jenkins main view ( ex: DXC-OmniChannel-for-Salesforce )

  • Jira

    • JIRA_HOST : Your JIRA instance host ( ex: jira.mydomain.com )
    • JIRA_USERNAME : Your JIRA username ( ex: nvuillam )
    • JIRA_PASSWORD : Your JIRA password or token ( ex: dffgdg5dfg5df5g5 )
    • JIRA_MAIN_PROJECT_NAME : Your JIRA main project name ( ex: Cloud IRM )

  • Miscellaneous

    • ACTIVATE_QUIZZ : Activate quizz & trivia commands

  • Email notifications

    • ABSENCES_SENDER_EMAIL_SERVICE : Email service for nodemailer package
    • ABSENCES_SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS : Email address sending the mails
    • ABSENCES_SENDER_EMAIL_USERNAME : Username for mailing service ( if not set, ABSENCES_SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS will be used )
    • ABSENCES_SENDER_EMAIL_PASSWORD : Password token for E-mail service

Add lelamanul to your slack workspace

• Open https://YOURAPPNAME.herokuapp.com/login in a web browser