[meetbot-devel] Agenda support for MeetBot

[Richard Darst]

Everyone: I am desperately trying to finish stuff up to get all
patches integrated, and something we can test.  I'll get back and
answer all mails ASAP.

Joachim: this is a good idea overall, and I'm sure we can integrate it
somehow.  The meetings I tend to be involved with are rather
unstructured, but people seem to want this feature so we should make
it so somehow.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:41:52PM +0200, Joachim Bartosik wrote:
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> Hello,
> as part of my GSoC project I'm making some changes to MeetBot. If it's
> possible I'd like to merge those changes into official MeetBot.
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> Changes are:
>  - Agenda management
>    - Turned off by default
>    - When staring meeting bot will fetch json files from given location.

Could it be made so that there is a configurable hook for getting
agenda items?  For example, someone can write their own script that
will fetch the URL and parse a list to make the meeting items.
Perhaps it could be something like "set a variable to a module to
import and run get_meeting_agenda function" to return agenda items?

>    - Those files contain list of users allowed to vote and agenda items
>    - Adds commands to use during meeting:
>      - For changing current agenda item
>        - #nextitem
>        - #previtem
>        - #changeitem <no>
>      - To manage voting
>        - #startvote
>        - #vote <choice>
>        - #endvote
>      - To manage available voting options
>        - #option add
>        - #option list
>        - #option remove
>      - To manage time limits (sends message to channel after given time)
>        - #timelimit add <minutes to wait>:<seconds to wait> <message>
>        - #timelimit list
>        - #timelimit remove <message>

Time limits are a good idea - I thought about it before, but threading
interfered with supybot somehow when I tried.  If you've solved that,
great... perhaps we should move this to the main bot?

Another idea: when #topic happens, allow a (timelimit: 5:00) or
something to automatically specify a time limit?

>    - When #endmeeting is issued it pushes voting results to given url.

Perhaps this could also be made some kind of hook?  Integrated into a
Writer or something ?


This makes me wonder if there should be a general extension system:
for example, a list of extension classes is loaded.  For each command
given, first Meeting.do_AAA() is tried, if that doesn't exist, it
searches the list self.extensions one by one and tries the do_AAA
method on all of them until it finds one.

There could also be hooks: searches each extension class for
ext.hook_line, ext.hook_command, ext.hook_endmeeting,
ext.hook_startmeeting, etc.

I'll try to get to all old patches ASAP.

Thanks,

- richard

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