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If you respond to a message in a thread, but also share the message to the channel, the bot does not respond to the message. Would the proper action be to also share the response to the channel, or to just respond in the thread? Either way, there needs to be some sort of reaction.

After my PR was rejected in the old repo, would it make sense to reopen it here?
gobridge/gopher#39

xkcd:ballmer should all alias to xkcd:323 for quick access to the Ballmer peak comic

It looks like Heroku CI only tests branches on this repo, and not pull requests to this repo from others. That's a pretty terrible experience, so we'll need to invest in some other CI system.

I would like to emit a count of open issues/PRs to #pion. My hope is that if people see the work that is available it will encourage more people to get involved!

I can write it in a general way so people can submit their own queries. I want to do the following queries. Would be nice to share the link, a label and the count.

• https://github.com/search?q=is%3Aopen+type%3Aissue+org%3Apion
• https://github.com/search?q=is%3Aopen+type%3Apr+org%3Apion

We should point folks to the #newbies channel if they are asking for newbie resources. It probably makes sense for the newbie resources command to take the channel in to account, and only recommend #newbies if we aren't already in that channel.

Add a simple command to define a word. I was thinking this should be an API somewhere we can hit to get a reasonable answer but realistically it will have to be a curated list.

The terms to be defined would probably just be Go terms, but there could be a fallback to a dictionary API for ESL people. It's probably over-complicating though.

Previous discussion here: gobridge/gopher#33

Since the Twitter app has been de-authorized on Gophers Slack; updates from the GoTime Twitter Feed / Mastodon Feed will no longer work. The preferred way of pushing these updates to Slack is through Gopher Bot.

This issue is to propose adding this support to the existing bgtask for gotime.

Proposal

1. Create a new package internal/poller/gotimestatus

2. Define NotifyFunc in internal/poller/gotimestatus. This function is called by poller/gotimestatus.GoTimeStatus whenever a new Mastodon post is discovered with the URL of the status.

   type NotifyFunc func(ctx context.Context, statusURL string) error

3. Poll @[email protected] using the Account/Statuses API: https://changelog.social/api/v1/accounts/109349735213354404/statuses?since_id=LAST_ID

• If there is no last status ID, post the latest status (only one)
• If there is a last status ID
  • Get statuses since that ID using since_id
  • Skip any statuses older than maxStatusAge. We only want to post fresh statuses, and this doubles as a way to avoid spamming the channel with the same update if redis persistence fails.
  • Call NotifyStatus for each statuses newer than the id.
  • Store the last status ID so it doesn't re-post again on the next call to Poll.

3. Create cmd/bgtasks/gotimestatus.go to set up the gotime status poller.

4. Define goTimeStatusNotifyFactory in gotimestatus.go that creates a function which uses the Slack Client to call chat.postMessage with unfurl_links=true and the statusURL as text. This allows Slack to do most of the heavy lifting reading the HTML from Mastodon and translating that into a Slack post. Example Below.

   

Implementation Questions

1. Should the GopherBot post as itself (ie: @gopher) or should it customize the slack message to use a Profile Image + Name. We can use any image and name. If there is an emoji we can also use that as the picture. Example:

Updates

Originally I had proposed to modify the gotime poller to add this functionality. But I did a little PoC and it is much cleaner to make a new package and copy/paste the implementation into the new package, making the necessary modifications. It gets real messy trying to shoehorn it into the existing poller.