Non-GitHub notifications

[anp]

@nrc, #61 (comment)

re notifications - I think it would be useful and important to get notification set up. Posting notifications to irc is really easy and low cost (to #rust-bots, so as not to pollute other channels), although I'm not sure exactly how valuable it is.

Email would be better, but I sympathise with the pain of getting it working. For triage bot I ended up sending via gmail using nodemailer.

dikaiosune:

is github not sending notifications from the initial status update comments? Or are you referring to other intermediate items (like so-and-so has checked a box or registered a concern)?

nrc:

it probably is, but I get so many GH notifications that they get lost - I have no way to mark pings as special, afaik (I could just get notifications for pings, I guess, but that is still a lot of GH mail).

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Sounds like #rust-bots will be easier to set up, but perhaps less useful (since a team member would need to be online to see a ping).

[anp]

Looks like this might be a simple enough example for IRC updates:

https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/blob/master/irc/src/main.rs

Would require getting IRC nicks for team members who use different IRC and GH nicks.

[nrc]

Would require getting IRC nicks for team members who use different IRC and GH nicks.

Highfive does this by using the Rustaceans API - https://github.com/nrc/highfive/blob/master/highfive/newpr.py#L316

[anp]

Boilerplate: I'm going to refocus this project on rfcbot, since that's the primary usage rusty-dash.com is seeing.

[anp]

oops