Hi all,
We were discussing this in the gitter chat
<https://gitter.im/JuliaLang/julia/>.
That it would be cool if everytime someone asked a Julia question on Stack
Overflow, it would appear in the Activity sidebar.
*They way, when questions are asked on stackoverflow, people hanging around
on gitter would see it, and could answer it.Thus making the community more
welcoming by people who are stuck getting help sooner,and so improving the
adoption of the language.*
So I threw together some code to make that
happen: https://github.com/oxinabox/GitterBots.jl
You can see it in action on my own gitter
channel: https://gitter.im/oxinabox/JuliaStackOverflowWatcher
<http://i.stack.imgur.com/WG7OL.png>
Its just a script running in a loop on my computer,
each minute it checks the stackover flow JuliaLang RSS feed,
and then posts them to a Gitter Custom Integration activity notifier.
I would like to set it up to run in the main channel.
The Activity bar in the main channel is currently empty -- unused.
I'm happy to host it, more or less forever, on the same server I use to host
the bot that links the IRC to gitter
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/ImKYzqHXA90>
But unlike that bot, I can not do this without permission form a channel
admin.
Which by default for gitter are people with commit access to the Julia
repository.
I need a channel admin to give me a webhook URL.
This can be gotten by clicking:
Room Settings -> Integrations -> *Custom*
Then copying the URL (It should look like
*https://webhooks.gitter.im/e/adb87a00ca31a22272dc*) and clicking done.
and sending it to me in an private message on gitter
or an email (though that is unencripted plain text, so could I guess be
snooped. Certainly not be sending to this mailing list as that would leave
it open for anyone to hook to)
Alternatively, the repo for the bot that checks stack overflow could be
cloned by a channel admin, and then they could run it themselves.
And so I wouldn't need to be given the webhook URL.
What do people think?
People who were on gitter at the time I brought it up, and showed the
demonstration were in favor, I think.
Regards
Lyndon White
