Pr. Police 
About
Pr. Police is a slackbot that sends to configured slack channels a listing of open pull requests that are waiting for a review. It supports watching multiple repositories, and filtering the pull requests by label.
This project is part of the Talkdesk Hackathon April 2017.
Running the bot
The quick and easy way
The easiest way to get an instance of Pr. Police up and running is to deploy it to Heroku by clicking on the button below.
You'll still need to fill in all the environment variables. For more info on this, head down to the Configuration section.
Via NPM
npm install pr-police
Manually
Git clone this repository then:
npm install
Run
npm start
This will start the server locally until Ctrl-C is pressed.
Note: You will need to pass all the required env vars.
Configuration
Pr. Police has the following environment variables available:
DEBUG
Debug flag used to enable more verbose logging. Default: false
DAYS_TO_RUN
Which days of the week to run on. Default: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday
GH_TOKEN
The github account token to access the repos
SLACK_TOKEN
The slack token for the bot to access your slack team
GH_REPOS
The list of repositories to watch. The format is user/repo and comma separated.
Example: rogeriopvl/gulp-ejs,rogeriopvl/pullhub,talkdesk/pr-police
GH_EXCLUDE_LABELS
The list of labels that will cause a pull-request to be excluded. So imagine, your team uses the label in-progress for pull-requests not yet requiring review, you'll have to fill in: in-progress. Supercedes GH_LABELS. Multiple labels are comma separated.
Example: do-not-merge,in-progress,needs-work
GH_LABELS
The list of labels to filter pull-requests. So imagine, your team uses the label needs review for pull-requests waiting for review, you'll have to fill in: needs review. Multiple labels are comma separated.
NOTE: Omitting both GH_EXCLUDE_LABELS and GH_LABELS will result in all open pull-requests being reported for the specified GH_REPOS.
SLACK_CHANNELS
The list of channels on your team where Pr. Police will post the announcements. Multiple channels are comma separated.
SLACK_GROUPS
The list of private groups on your team where Pr. Police will post the announcements. Multiple channels are comma separated.
SLACK_BOT_NAME
The name of your Pr. Police bot on slack.
SLACK_BOT_ICON
URL of the icon for the slack bot when sending messages.
TIMES_TO_RUN
What times of day to run (24-hour format, leading zeroes are not necessary). Multiple times are comma-separated. Default: 0900.
TZ
The timezone the server should use. Heroku default is UTC. Uses tz database timezone format. Example: America/Los_Angeles.
Heroku configuration
If heroku attempts to start a web process instead of a worker, you may need to run: heroku ps:scale web=0 worker=1 -a {HEROKU_APP_NAME}
Credits
Pr. Police was developed by Rogério Vicente during one of Talkdesk's internal hackathons.
Artwork created by Micaela Neto