Blake is a Slack bot for providing lists of JIRA tickets (e.g. ungroomed backlog items) to Slack. It will post a list of ticket links to a Slack channel based on a saved JIRA filter.
A number of configuration options are available via environment variable;
see env/example.env for more information.
- Node.js (tested with version 6 but others should work)
- Administrative access to a Slack workspace for configuration
- A JIRA account with access permissions to the desired filter
- Docker (optional)
To use Blake a bot must first be configured in your Slack workspace. More information on setting up Slack bots can be found here.
Once that is complete, create a new environment file by coping the example
in the env folder. Add the generated token to it, and configure the other
values as appropriate. Note that the bot must be invited to the desired posting
channel with /invite @blake (assuming you named your bot blake in Slack,
which you should; add a nice avatar of your favorite Blake while you're at it)
Finally run npm i to install Node.js dependencies.
To run the bot once, execute . env/your.env && npm start. It will run the
filter query, post the results, and then exit.
A Dockerfile is also provided. Execute docker build -t blake . to build the
image, and then run it with docker run --env-file env/your.env blake.
This software was developed as an internal project at Votem Corp.
Votem bolsters trust, access, and transparency in elections with a core suite of products spanning voter registration, mobile and electronic ballot marking for military and overseas voters and voters with accessibility considerations, and election management systems focused on security and verifiable voting.
For more information, visit https://votem.com.