done reports - open source bridge

Amber Case @caseorganic

Aaron Parecki@aaronpk

acase@esri.comDirector, Esri PDX

aparecki@esri.comCTO, Esri PDX

!done - Hacking IRC Bots for Distributed TeamsOpen Source Bridge 2013!

Changes

• Team dynamics change after 6 people• Scrum lasted about 4-5 days• Daily standups = cumbersome• Needed a way to quickly share status

> !done

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

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

At the end of the day, everyone gets an email with what everyone has !done

> !done squashed some bugs

Daily Email!

!done commands

> !done pushed to production

> !todo send out notification emails

> !hero caseorganic for bringing Legos!

> !blocking loud noises from construction work

And…

> !meme

> !meme to production | and beyond!

Adoption

Someone sees our channel & asks “what is that?”

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!

Aaron was the bottleneck:had to add users manually

mysql> INSERT INTO users (username, email, nicks) VALUES ('aaronpk’,'aparecki@esri.com', 'aaronpk');

All Groups

Limechat

Limechat

Email report!

Documentation?

No documentation!

Invariably, someone else in the channel will explain how it works!

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!

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

Bot Architecture

Beta for OSBridge Attendees!

Want to try it out? Sign up at donereports.com and we’ll let you in!

github.com/donereports/Done-Reports-IRC

> !done presented at OSBridge!

Amber Case @caseorganic

Aaron Parecki@aaronpk

acase@esri.comDirector, Esri PDX

aparecki@esri.comCTO, Esri PDX

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