slack-testimonials-bot

Slack bot that shares and promotes awareness of KA's testimonials

To run locally:

• First run make decrypt_secrets, then follow the instructions
• Then run make deps
• Then run make serve

== Deployment

There's two separate things to deploy here:

The api endpoints that send new testimonials to slack runs as a appengine standard application. Deploy these by running make deploy. To test that the deploy succeeded, you can hit /test_new_testimonial and verify that a new default testimonial is sent to the #testimonials channel.

For access to the App Engine part of this application, ask #it for access to khan-testimonials-turtle GCP project.

The slack client that listens for reactions to slack messages and updates vote totals (listener.py) runs on toby, using the configuration found here. To update that code, follow these steps:

# SSH into toby:
gcloud --project=khan-internal-services compute ssh \
    ubuntu@toby-internal-webserver

# cd to the project directory
cd /home/ubuntu/slack-testimonials-bot

# pull the latest code
git fetch && git checkout origin/master

# restart the service to pull in that latest code
sudo systemctl restart slack-testimonials-bot

To test that this deploy succeeded, upvote a recently high quality testimonial. This should eventually reshare that testimonial to the #khan-academy channel.

== Fixing when it breaks

If something is weird with the App Engine deployment, try going in to cloud storage and wiping the staging bucket in there.