Feature request: database to contain users rather than config file

[alexmuller]

It would be really cool if we could control the list of users in Slack rather than having to make pull requests to the config file. For example with these commands in the channel:

seal list members
seal add alexmuller
seal remove alexmuller

[binaryberry]

Sorry about the slow of feedback! That would be nice. It would require a hubot integration, which I've started work on but haven't yet completed.
I do find it's a pain that most of the PRs on the seal are config changes. Will work on it when I finally have free time again, which won't be until late july. But PRs welcome if you're in a rush :-)

[petrgazarov]

+1 a database would be great.

[binaryberry]

Thanks Petr for the feedback! I'm hoping I'll get some time to do this over Christmas! Unless a generous PR comes along :-)

[stig]

I second a database! Or, ability to pull config from a different repo perhaps? We have a private fork because we don't feel the need to clutter your repo with our config & team names.

[netflash]

You can use just the ENV variables, I don't have config file at all.

export SEAL_ORGANISATION="org"
export GITHUB_MEMBERS="user1,user2,netflash"
export SLACK_CHANNEL="#channel-name"
export DYNO=true

[stig]

Alex Romanov <[email protected]> writes:

You can use just the ENV variables, I don't have config file at all.

Thanks for the suggestion! However, our config file is 91 lines at the moment and sees the odd PR to add projects / channels to it. We report to channels for different teams. I think it would be a bit of a mess to do that by env vars for us.