​​Zulip bots and integrations agendas
​​This doc contains the agendas (and any notes) from Zulip bots and integrations team meetings.
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​​Anyone should feel free to add items to this agenda; it’s just a draft.
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​​2017-07-06 9AM PST
  • ​​Progress since last week:
  • ​​Neil:
  • ​​#5624 [open] - Test state in bots (ie. using StateHandler); tests for tictactoe bot
  • ​​Working on update_message testing; tests for incrementor bot, blocked by #5624 
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​​2017-06-29 9AM PST
  • ​​To discuss?
  • ​​Separation of bots into external repo? (discussion yesterday on #integrations)
  • ​​Future of update_message (generally? for bots? probe support?)
  • ​​PRs (from progress this last week)
  • ​​Progress since last week:
  • ​​Neil:
  • ​​Learning more about how the mocking works; split testing multiple-responses and return success out of #5502 into #5587.
  • ​​Commented/reviewed some PRs.
  • ​​Plans for next week or so:
  • ​​Neil:
  • ​​Develop more test support (state? update_message?)
  • ​​Push PR for multiple-responses (demo code for bot feature & testing)
  • ​​Research slash command supports among chat systems
  • ​​Remaining major projects for the interactive bots system:
  • ​​Build a documentation framework similar to the /integrations/ one (ideally, use the existing code with just some sort of tag/option)
  • ​​Improve our general API documentation
  • ​​Building StateHandler support for the various different interfaces
  • ​​Test suites
  • ​​Eliminating network access from the existing bot tests
  • ​​Adding tests for bots running in Travis CI
  • ​​Dependencies and packaging:
  • ​​zulip, zulip-bots, and zulip-bot-server packages?
  • ​​Nice requirements file for the zulip-bots package.
  • ​​Extensive user testing of pip install​ through running an existing bot and debugging the process.
  • ​​Getting extensive user testing of the sequence from pip install​ through having a working new bot.  Might find we want a template one can copy to start, etc.
  • ​​Slash commands feature.
  • ​​Slack-style interface for outgoing webhooks (would want to test that actual Slack bots using that API work).
  • ​​[Embedded bots] Banning state not tracked through StateHandler in bots (no globals at the top of the file, etc.)
  • ​​[Embedded bots] UI for creating/activating an embedded bot user
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​​2017-06-22 9AM PST - fifth meeting!
  • ​​Progress since last week:
  • ​​Neil:
  • ​​Minor PR to support more message keys in check_expected_responses [merged]
  • ​​Opened WIP Pollbot PR; awaiting further feedback, though depends upon alternative code being added to avoid use of update_message (#5426)
  • ​​Developed PR to clean up bot testing including adding support for testing multiple bot responses (send_*) per call, send_* success/failure, … (#5502)
  • ​​Simple Subscribe bot developed, illustrating use of multiple bot responses; cannot be tested fully pend #5502. 
  • ​​Rohitt: