Mattermost-server: New plugin: Reminder bot

[esethna]

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Notes: Jira ticket

Thanks to @scottleedavis for helping to migrate the functionality of his reminder plugin to a core Mattermost feature. You can check out his work here: https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind

[scottleedavis]

Excellent and thank you @esethna! I am starting work on this today.

[scottleedavis]

0.0.1 https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-server/projects/2 planned

[june-xu]

@scottleedavis Thanks so much for creating this (much needed) bot, and helping integrate it into MM. I was wondering when MM users can expect to start using it?

[scottleedavis]

Thank you @june-xu !

Here is the state of things:
Core algorithm is complete. (I18n translation took longer than expected). Unit tests complete (app, store and model)

Todo:
Add interactive buttons to reminders
Strikethrough completed reminders
Listed reminders with link/flatbuttons
UI reminders CRUD

After dev complete, the UX team has feedback that likely iterates a few times.

After that, a PR is created and the code/design review process kicks off.

All of that, coupled with my available dev time (off hours and weekends) has my estimation for completion in the fuzzy area. I am hoping by next release. :)

https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-server/tree/MM-10580

[scottleedavis]

I haven't been able to hit my personal target for next release (it has been a couple)! Life and things.
Update on where things are at.

https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-server/projects/2#column-3266355

• interactive buttons on reminder fully functional. select button 'snooze' is working great.
• todo: /remind list interactive functionality via mattermost-webapp + mattermost-server api . (crud, paging)
• todo: i18n translations and parsing for all supported languages (everything has been tested in english thus far)
• the actual remindbot user currently uses a normal user account. in the future, it will be part of the builtin-bots

My biggest concern? The i18n translations and the logic needed to parse different statements of time with the message. I don't know how long this will take to develop.

I don't have a current estimate for this work. I commit to stay on it though.

[abergs]

@scottleedavis Do we need full support of i18n for version1? I believe it would be an easier path to not support those complex scenarios and instead launch the feature and see what/how much usage the community generates?

[scottleedavis]

great question/point @abergs , thank you. I brought this up with @coreyhulen and he had some great recommendations.

_solve it for US English_

• do it in an easily extensible way for others to add new languages/locales based on the server setting
• key off the server locale, but fallback to English when it's not a supported language.

[abergs]

Sounds great @scottleedavis

[scottleedavis]

I believe a critical mass of people believe this bot would ideally be built as a plugin, so that is the new plan. It will require a translation system built, as well as the webapp portion able to be dynamically loaded in mobile/react-native

[scottleedavis]

Nicely done @hanzei . https://github.com/matterpoll/matterpoll/pull/133

[scottleedavis]

It is probably not an ideal approach to attempt loading plugin javascript into mobile dynamically.

Having the webapp plugins in a mobile experience would be awesome though. :)

[scottleedavis]

At v0.2.3 currently https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind

Happy to develop, test, validate further this plugin. (Doing so already). I would be happy to transfer this plugin to Mattermost if that is still desired @esethna .

[Tragen]

I would love to see it included.

[JtheBAB]

@Tragen

https://integrations.mattermost.com/?s=Remind%20Plugin

[scottleedavis]

The post header dot menu submenu code for scheduling reminders from a post, will be included as part of this plugin.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-webapp/pull/3357
https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind/pull/137

[scottleedavis]

open code review issues
https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind/issues/143
https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind/issues/142

[scottleedavis]

plugin complete https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind/

[hanzei]

Closing this one. https://github.com/scottleedavis/mattermost-plugin-remind/ is on a good way. Thanks for the great work @scottleedavis :rocket: