PointsBot/docs/TODO.md

TODO

File-specific lists are in loose descending order of priority.

Current

n/a

General

• Logging
  • Especially when unable to handle a comment
• Notifications
  • Let admins know if a comment can't be properly handled
  • Email preferable; could do Reddit message, too
    • Maybe have both and make into a config option
• Testing
  • Any PRAW model that inherits from praw.PRAWBase has a parse method that could perhaps be used to make fake objects for testing
• GUI
  • Create a GUI for configuring and running the bot, and performing other jobs like adding or subtracting points for specific redditors
  • Check for updates in the Github repo and prompt user to update
    • Github API overview:
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/
      • https://developer.github.com/v4/
        • It turns out that v4 might only be possible with a Github user account to authenticate with the API.
    • Useful links:
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#get-branch
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-archive-link
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/#timezones
    • Webhooks:
      • https://developer.github.com/webhooks/
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/
      • https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#pushevent
• Determine whether and how to check "![Ss]olved" comments have been later edited to remove the "![Ss]olved" string, and whether and how to remove or reassign points
  • If so, it could do that daily or something.
  • This will be especially important if a "recovery mode" is implemented that crawls through the whole subreddit to rebuild the database, since the bot would only be able to see comments that haven't been removed, or the newest version of edited comments.
  • This could also just be encouraged through sub rules; e.g. "don't mark as solved until you've actually tried the proposed solution"
• As mentioned in the previous section, implement a recovery mode

File-Specific

bot.py

• Now that the date of each solution is being stored, can check for missed submissions each time the bot is run by searching subreddit history until last solution found
• Allow mods and/or bot owner to add or remove points from specific users
• Make the algorithm for determining the problem solver more sophisticated
  • e.g. check entire comment tree instead of just ignoring if the OP also authored the parent comment
  • Ask OP for clarification only if solver cannot be sufficiently determined
  • Again, this behavior could also perhaps be better enforced through subreddit rules rather than algorithmically

config.py

• Add list of emails to which notifications should be sent
• Switch from toml package to tomlkit package
  • Preserves style, comments, etc.

database.py

• For each solved submission, store:
  • submission id
  • solution comment id
  • solved comment id
  • date
  • solver id
• Possibly refactor for a datastore type thing instead of database
  • Maybe even make models like Redditor to combine data storage/access with logic, e.g. determining current level
  • Seems like overkill, though