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Meetbot
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==============
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Overview
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--------
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The OpenStack CI team run a slightly modified
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`Meetbot <http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot>`_ to log IRC channel activity and
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meeting minutes. Meetbot is a plugin for
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`Supybot <http://sourceforge.net/projects/supybot/>`_ which adds meeting
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support features to the Supybot IRC bot.
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Supybot
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-------
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In order to run Meetbot you will need to get Supybot. You can find the latest
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release `here <http://sourceforge.net/projects/supybot/files/>`_. Once you have
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extracted the release you will want to read the ``INSTALL`` and
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``doc/GETTING_STARTED`` files. Those two files should have enough information to
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get you going, but there are other goodies in ``doc/``.
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Once you have Supybot installed you will need to configure a bot. The
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``supybot-wizard`` command can get you started with a basic config, or you can
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have Puppet do the heavy lifting. The OpenStack CI Meetbot Puppet module creates
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a configuration and documentation for that module is at
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:ref:`Meetbot_Puppet_Module`.
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One important config setting is ``supybot.reply.whenAddressedBy.chars``, which
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sets the prefix character for this bot. This should be set to something other
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than ``#`` as ``#`` will conflict with Meetbot (you can leave the setting blank
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if you don't want a prefix character).
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Meetbot
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-------
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The OpenStack CI Meetbot fork can be found at
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https://github.com/openstack-ci/meetbot. Manual installation of the Meetbot
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plugin is straightforward and documented in that repository's README.
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OpenStack CI installs and configures Meetbot through Puppet. Documentation for
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the Puppet module that does that can be found at :ref:`Meetbot_Puppet_Module`.
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Voting
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^^^^^^
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The OpenStack CI Meetbot fork adds simple voting features. After a meeting has
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been started a meeting chair can begin a voting block with the ``#startvote``
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command. The command takes two arguments, a question posed to voters (ending
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with a ``?``), and the valid voting options. If the second argument is missing
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the default options are "Yes" and "No". For example:
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``#startvote Should we vote now? Yes, No, Maybe``
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Meeting participants vote using the ``#vote`` command. This command takes a
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single argument, which should be one of the options listed for voting by the
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``#startvote`` command. For example:
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``#vote Yes``
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Note that you can vote multiple times, but only your last vote will count.
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One can check the current vote tallies useing the ``#showvote`` command, which
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takes no arguments. This will list the number of votes and voters for each item
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that has votes.
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When the meeting chair(s) are ready to stop the voting process they can issue
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the ``#endvote`` command, which takes no arguments. Doing so will report the
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voting results and log these results in the meeting minutes.
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A somewhat contrived voting example:
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::
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foo | #startvote Should we vote now? Yes, No, Maybe
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meetbot | Begin voting on: Should we vote now? Valid vote options are Yes, No, Maybe.
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meetbot | Vote using '#vote OPTION'. Only your last vote counts.
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foo | #vote Yes
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bar | #vote Absolutely
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meetbot | bar: Absolutely is not a valid option. Valid options are Yes, No, Maybe.
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bar | #vote Yes
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bar | #showvote
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meetbot | Yes (2): foo, bar
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foo | #vote No
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foo | #showvote
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meetbot | Yes (1): bar
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meetbot | No (1): foo
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foo | #endvote
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meetbot | Voted on "Should we vote now?" Results are
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meetbot | Yes (1): bar
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meetbot | No (1): foo
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