BatSignal

This tool is created aiming to help new developers get into the community of Pharo, to help him contact with experts in the area, and so to shorten the time they spend looking for information. The users might find more reliable, updated and useful answers from experts.

Installation

Run the script below in the workspace of Pharo (tested on Pharo 6.1, Pharo 7 comming soon)

Metacello new
    baseline: #BatSignal;
    repository: 'github://jhoncc2/bat-signal:dev';
    load.

ChatBot (BTBot package)

This package contains the chatbot behavior. Uses expertise information from data folder, and serves this information in a discord chat server.

In order to start the chatbot, you must use your own configuration, and then run the code

    inst := BTQueryBot instance.

    inst token: 'bot_token_goes_here'.
    inst serverTarget: 'some_server'.
    inst channelsToListen: {'channel1'. 'channel2'}.
    "inst channelsToOmit: {'channel1'. 'channel2'}."

    inst newLogName.
    inst startListening.

To stop the server just execute BTqueryBot instance disconnect. Note that BTqueryBot instance is a singleton.

Data (BTExpertiseCoverage package)

The classes contained in this packages are used to collect data about code-expertise (authorship) using direct authorship, and usageExpertise.

In order to run the process, execute:

inst := BTContributorsPharo new.
inst runWithUsageExpertise; 
    build;
    saveExtendedData.

Note that this takes a lot of time running, it will process the data and save it in data/methods.json, data/classes.json and data/package.json.