hubot-board

A lightweight kanban-ish chat bot for working with github issues

See src/board.js for full documentation.

Installation

In hubot project repo, run:

npm install hubot-board --save

This also requires hubot-github-identity >= 0.10.0. To add that to your project, use:

npm install --save hubot-github-identity@0.10.0

Then add hubot-board & hubot-github-identity to your external-scripts.json:

[
  "hubot-github-identity",
  "hubot-board"
]

Registering your github account with hubot

Step 1: Create a token to access your github info as yourself

curl -i https://api.github.com/authorizations -d '{"note":"token for slackbot","scopes":["repo"]}' -u “yourusername"

Step 2: Register your username and token

• locally at http://localhost:8080/github/identity
• production https://HUBOT_HOSTNAME/github/identity

Step 3: Tell hubot who you are

• in a channel hubot I am eddywashere
• direct message to hubot I am eddywashere

Chat commands

• !board user/repo - shows default board (isssues labeled: ready, working, done)
• **!board user/repo !new - - creates a new issue
• !board user/repo !(backlog|ready|working|done) - shows all backlog items
• !board user/repo !mine - shows all issues assigned to you
• !board user/repo milestone:version - shows board for the given milestone (ex: mile-stone-name:part-two)
• **!board user/repo milestone:version !new - - creates a new issue for a milestone
• !board user/repo milestone:version !(backlog|ready|working|done) - show backlog issues for the given milestone
• !board user/repo milestone:version !mine - show issues assigned to you for the given milestone

TODO

• brainstorm ideas for sorting issues by priority
• add in commands as needed