slack-manager

Agile Development tool for Slack.

Basically, "Standup meetings for Slack"

Slack Manager allows teams to monitor employees on a daily basis. You can start a meeting by inviting your bot to your current channel and just write "start meeting".

Advantages of Slack Manager from other services:

• Free and easy to use.
• Configurable mail settings.
• Configurable questions.

Create your Slack bot.

• First make a bot integration inside of your Slack channel. Go here: https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot
• Enter a name for your bot. Make it something fun and friendly, but avoid a single task specific name. Bots can do lots! Let's not pigeonhole them.
• When you click "Add Bot Integration", you are taken to a page where you can add additional details about your bot, like an avatar, as well as customize its name & description.

Copy the API token that Slack gives you. You'll need it in the next step.

Installation

Clone the repository by:

git clone https://github.com/anonrig/slack-manager

Install from NPM

npm install slack-manager --save

Create your settings file.

touch config/production.json

Mailer service uses nodemailer's transport methods. Therefore, for better understanding please read nodemailer's available transports .

For example for Gmail settings: change your settings file by:

{
    "token": "YOUR SLACK TOKEN HERE",
    "mailer": {
        "service": "Gmail",
        "email": "[e-mail]",
        "password": "mySuperFancyPassword"
    }
}

Usage

Install dependencies

npm install

Start your bot.

npm start

Commands

• start meeting

  Starts meeting. To be able to start meeting with this command your bot should be invited to the channel.

• skip

  Skips the current user's turn. Asks/Returns to the skipped users again at the end of the meeting. Can be skipped more than once.

• dismiss

  Dismisses the current user, in other words kicks the current user out of the meeting. Useful in case of an absence.

• quit

  Ends the meeting. Meeting can be restarted by typing start meeting again.

Tech

Slack-Manager uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• Botkit - Botkit - Building Blocks for Building Bots
• Node-mailer - Send e-mails with Node.JS – easy as cake! E-mail made in Estonia.
• Lodash - A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
• Async - Async utilities for node and the browser.
• Nconf - Hierarchical node.js configuration with files, environment variables, command-line arguments, and atomic object merging.

Development

Want to contribute? Great! Feel free to submit bugs, and open pull requests.

License

MIT