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 :ref:`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 :ref:`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