chatopsbot

Microsoft Bot Framework based bot that can queue VSTS builds from Slack or any other Microsoft Bot Connector based channel.

Clone and add Web.Secret.config with your bot appid and secret, and the url and PAT (token) to your VSTS instance.

Follow the steps in Microsoft Bot Connector - Getting Started to create a bot instance in Azure and connect it to e.g. Slack.

Currently supported commands for the bot:

• help - list the available commands
• help [command] - more info on [command]
• state - some settings that the bot remembers for you during your conversation and some info about your conversation
• set - change your user settings
• alias - Create an alias for another command. Run an aliased command. List all known aliases.
• project - List all available vsts projects.
• build - Start or Cancel a vsts build. List all available vsts builds.

####build

switch	description
--id	the build id or name
--start	start a build (the default switch if none is specified)
--list	list all builds for a project
--cancel	cancel all builds
--project	the project id or name
--config	override the default BuildConfiguration
--queue	show all running and queued builds
value pos. 0	pass the build id or name as the first parameter

Examples:

build --list
build 42
build --cancel 42
build --project abc --id 42
build 42 --config Debug
build --queue --project abcxyz

####project

switch	description
--list	list available projects (the default switch if none is specified)

Examples:

project --list
project

####state

switch	description
	show your state settings
--clear	clear all your state settings

Examples:

state
state --clear

####set

switch	description
--tfsuser	set your tfs username to request builds on your behalf
--project	set your default tfs project

Examples:

set --tfsuser [email protected]
set --project abcdef

####alias

switch	description
--name	the name of the alias
--command	the aliased command
--create	create a new alias or update an existing one (this is the default switch if none is specified). Requires you to also specify a name and command
--run	run an aliased command. You can also run the alias by just passing the alias without 'alias --run'. The command 'alias --run ' is equivalent with the command ''
--list	list all known aliases
--clear	clear all known aliases
value pos. 0	the aliased command can also be passed without the --command

Examples:

alias --name my-alias --command "project --list"
alias --run --name "my-alias"
my-alias
alias --list

Todos:

• Connect to luis to make the bot more chatty and less botty Tried it and the language is too specific for luis.
• use build and project names instead of ids
• implement moar commands
• get build logs as zip
• get build artifacts as zip
• get build tags
• get build report as html
• get work item queries
• get work items in status
• associate build to work item
• get changes associated with a build
• improve the command parsing Now using the Commandline library