openSUSE admin

During hackweek I spent some time on this issue. Up to now results are :

1. There is no native support of gitlab pushing messages into IRC
2. Supybot used by heroes for pushing notification about infra status does not have native integration with gitlab neither
3. Supybot has integration with RSS so you can sign up for gitlab RSS feed . Down side of this - it would be really spamy solution because there is not match filtering abilities from gitlab side so you will get notification about every comment for MR for example
4. @tampakrap suggested to use https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/#after_script which look really promising but I did not finish yet

No matter that hackweek is over I plan to continue on this in my free time

I'm happy to hear that you want to work on this :-)

FYI: Gitlab has two feed types:

• the "activity" feed which you already found
• the "commits" feed which includes only commits. A merge request includes one entry per commit (not per merge request) and it only delivers after something got merged. So it's not perfect (better solutions welcome ;-) but better than nothing. The commit feed is https://gitlab.infra.opensuse.org/infra/salt/commits/production.atom?private_token=YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN

Another option might be to filter the activities feed for merge requests (and whatever we want, whitelist- or blacklist-based), and feed the filtered feed to supybot.

So I figure out how to make supybot post messages on every commit , but my current impediment is credentials of the bot

some updates :
I got all needed credentials and access to machine where bot is running
I manage to install RSS feed plugin in supybot instance which connected to #opensuse-admin

bot showing in logs :
Checking for announcements at https://gitlab.infra.opensuse.org/infra/salt.atom but it not produce any messages in IRC channel when new commit hit gitlab

if you trying to push bot for manual feed check it will cause error :
Error: Couldn't get RSS feed.

Next steps :
double check if this feed is ok by trying to run bot on another machine