Postfacto retro items - tag users

[Petahhh]

Hey!

I've started using this when Denise Yu introduced it to the PCC team last week! Very cool.

I was wondering how you were planning on tagging people:
https://github.com/vlad-stoian/robbit/blob/master/src/post-retro-items.py#L60

I was thinking that an easy way would be to remove the triple back ticks here: https://github.com/vlad-stoian/robbit/blob/master/src/post-retro-items.py#L62
and use @slack-username in out postfacto retro items.

Or were you thinking something more sophisticated like map initials to an list of slack usernames as inputs?

Thanks for creating this!!

Peter

[vlad-stoian]

Hi Peter,

CC: @carlo-colombo (co-creator of robbit)

I haven't given much thought about how to tag people. We could go the hardcode route, but that won't work for other users outside our team (if anyone would like to use it). Maybe having a config file resource might work? Will it then become too complicated to use? I don't know.
(I have hardcoded stuff in another script, but it breaks really often when stuff/usernames/people joining/leaving happen: https://github.com/vlad-stoian/robbit/blob/master/src/update-channel-topic.py#L30-L43)

There are other things that should be more generic if another team wants to use this script since most of the messages have "RabbitMQ" and "rabbits" hardcoded. Are you interested in using it? If yes, we can start iterating towards making it more customizable.

Your suggestion might work, but then the burden of remembering slack usernames falls on us (and postfacto doesn't have slack username autocomplete, so you need to be mindful of typos). Will @username become too annoying quickly? I'm definitely going to ask my team about it. The idea behind it was that you will get all the action items and check them yourself without being annoyed by it. But then again, we iterate as we find new and better ideas.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Vlad.

[Petahhh]

Hi Vlad and Carlo!

I'll fork your repo and try out the mapping thing and see how well that works for my team.

Thanks again for creating this!

Peter