listbot

Automatically add a checklist (sourced from .github/listbot.md) to every Pull Request which is opened. As the checklist is updated the bot will change the build status depending on whether the checklist is completed.

Installation

1. Generate a personal access token from Github

• It must have repo and repo:status for scopes
• Note: Lists will appear as comments by the user who generates this token.
  • You may want to create a "bot user" and use the token from that account.

2. Signup for Torus if you haven't already

• Run torus link in your checkout of the code
• Create an environment for Heroku torus envs create heroku
• Create a machine role for your deployment torus machines roles create heroku
• Give your machine role read only access torus allow rl /$org/$project/heroku/default/*/*/* heroku
• Create a new machine for your deployment with torus machines create heroku-instance -r heroku
• Store the token as GITHUB_TOKEN using torus set -e heroku GITHUB_TOKEN [token]

3. Click the Heroku deploy button
4. Add values for TORUS_TOKEN_ID, TORUS_TOKEN_SECRET, TORUS_PROJECT, TORUS_ORG from step 2.
5. Add a new file to your repository at .github/listbot.md
6. Add a new webhook at https://github.com/[owner]/[repo]/settings/hooks/new

• Set the payload url to [hostname]/webhook where [hostname] is the deployed service
• Select Issue comment, Pull request and Push from "Let me select individual events"
• Mark it as active and save