Pairing Bot 🍐🤖

A Zulip bot that partners people for pair programming practice :)

How to use Pairing Bot as an end-user

Pairing Bot interacts through private messages on Zulip.

• subscribe to start getting matched with other Pairing Bot users for pair programming
• schedule monday wednesday friday to set your weekly pairing schedule
  • In this example, Pairing Bot has been set to find pairing partners for the user on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
  • The user can schedule pairing for any combination of days in the week
• skip tomorrow to skip pairing tomorrow
  • This is valid until matches go out at 04:00 UTC
• unskip tomorrow to undo skipping tomorrow
• status to show your current schedule, skip status, and name
• unsubscribe to stop getting matched entirely
  • This removes the user from the database. Since logs are anonymous, after unsubscribe Pairing Bot has no record of that user

About Pairing Bot's setup and deployment

• Serverless. RC's instance is currently deployed on App Engine
• Firestore database
• Deployed on pushes to the main branch with Cloud Build
• The database must be prepopulated with two pieces of data: an authentication token (which the bot uses to validate incoming webhook requests), and an api key (which the bot uses to send private messages to Zulip users)
• Zulip has bot types. Pairing Bot is of type outgoing webhook
• Pair programming matches are made, and the people who've been matched are notified, any time an HTTP GET request is issued to /cron

Pull requests are welcome, especially from RC community members!

Pairing Bot is an RC community project.

Your contributions are welcome and encouraged, no matter your prior experience!