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