The OpenMRSBot on IRC is too chatty (for me)

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Just a random thought…

When I look at the OpenMRS Chat channel using Telegram (and its bridge to IRC) I usually see a wall of text that’s impossible to skim, and frankly I no longer care about seeing every change to every JIRA ticket:

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Maybe this is more digestible in an IRC client, but at least for myself I don’t look at or participate on the IRC because I would have to spend too much energy actually looking for comments from real people.

I propose we stop having the bot chatter so much (basically get rid of all JIRA notifications via IRC). Thoughts?

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Agreed. Anyone interested in an event feed from JIRA can subscribe to it. Showing new tickets would make sense, but showing every status change is too much.

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How do we change this?

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I think this is the ‘teleirc’ bot that is currently running in a machine called ndu. This is all the information I managed to collect about it:

Telegram Bot

The Telegram bot runs on Digital Ocean (ndu). The steps taken to create and configure this bot are in /root/README. From these instructions:

# cd /opt
# git clone https://github.com/FruitieX/teleirc
# cd teleirc
# docker build -t openmrs/teleirc extras
# docker run --name=teleirc-data  -v /var/teleirc:/home/teleirc/.teleirc openmrs/teleirc echo 'data teleirc'
# docker run --rm --volumes-from=teleirc-data openmrs/teleirc teleirc --genconfig
# docker run --name=teleirc -p 9090:9090 -d --restart=always --volumes-from=teleirc-data openmrs/teleirc

To restart if it stopped:

$ ssh ndu.openmrs.org
$ sudo su root -
# docker start teleirc

That bot haven’t been migrated to jetstream yet. So, we don’t have that in code, nor we have a build or anything like that.

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/var/teleirc is where the configuration exists.

Do you want me to give access to you or to someone to play with it?

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If you want to disable totally JIRA notifications in IRC, I have absolutely no idea how that’s configured.

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So, I’ve found it.

We have another machine, a very very old one, running supybot:

The RSS plugin is enabled.

This is the config

Let me know what do you want me to disable.

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Quickly glancing on my phone…

jira Remove

ask I think this no longer exists and we should remove the config

ci keep, assuming it means broken builds

cistg remove

talk not sure offhand.

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Perhaps changing the JIRA RSS feed to something like this:

https://issues.openmrs.org/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-rss/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=created+%3E%3D+-1w+order+by+created+DESC&tempMax=10

That would only report newly created tickets.

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I’m fine doing this for now and seeing how much noise there is. (Personally I already see newly created tickets in my own rss reader so I don’t want to see them on IRC also. But I doubt many people do this.)

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I think that worked.

But I’m super curious about the other bots. The @ChanServ, the status bot, do we even control them?

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We have control of the IRC channel (chansrv).

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Something I think would increase the signal to noise ratio is to reformat the messages to a more succinct format, i.e. from this:

^^^ New from OpenMRS jira: Tomasz Mueller updated 2 fields of SYNCT-133 - Add Visits Synchronization https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/SYNCT-133

To something like this, leveraging some markdown which should be supported in telegram [1]:

JIRA: Tomasz Mueller updated 2 fields of SYNCT-133 - Add Visits Synchronization

I’m not sure if this is achievable with the current bot implementation, just wanted to throw the idea on the table. :slight_smile:

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@henziger that seems to make sense to me, some of these messages can be less verbose