Bagel (for Mattermost)

Bagel is a Mattermost tool that, given a channel, will randomly match the people in it into pairs and tell them to socialize over a coffee or something.

This is a command-line tool built in Go, which is configured entirely via environment variables, that will perform the above matching when it is run.

How to create the necessary configuration to run this program

1. Copy the source file env.sh.template into a new executable file (we call ours env.sh) that looks like the following:

export BAGEL_MATTERMOST_URL="https://<your mattermost server url>"

export BAGEL_USERNAME="<some mattermost username>"
export BAGEL_PASSWORD="<that username's password>"

export BAGEL_TEAM_NAME="<the name of some mattermost team name>"
export BAGEL_CHANNEL_NAME="<the name of some mattermost channel under that team>"

export BAGEL_PERSISTENCE_METHOD="<'none' to not track pairing history in a database, 'sqlite' to store pairing history in a SQLite file.>"
export BAGEL_PERSISTENCE_RETRY_COUNT=<number of times to retry generating matches if we detect a conversation pair that was the same as from the last time this program was run>

export BAGEL_SQLITE_FILE="<the name of the file (including path) where you would like to create and load a SQLite database if configured to do so.>"
export BAGEL_SQLITE_STALE_BOUNDARY="<'N days', where N is an integer. This tells us the number of days in the past to check for previous matches between our newly generated pairs in order to not repeat them.>"

2. source that file ... in BASH or SH or ZSH this is source env.sh for example.

How to create and run the binary.

1. Install Go
2. From the repository directory, run go build
3. (Optionally) copy the env.sh generated above and mattermost-bagel files to wherever you would like them to live.
4. After sourcing env.sh, run mattermost-bagel

How to run this code as it is being developed.

1. Generate and source the env.sh file as done above.
2. Edit the code.
3. Run go test ./... to run all unit tests.
4. Run go run main.go to run your latest code.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT software license.