hectron/fauci.d

A Slack bot that finds COVID-19 vaccine appointments.

Hello there 👋

name: Hector Rios
title: Senior Software Engineer
site: https://hectron.github.io/
location: Chicago, IL, USA
interests:
  - photography
  - civic tech
  - hobby projects
  - twinkly midwest-emo music

fauci.d's Issues

Distribute Slackbot

We need to investigate how to distribute this Slackbot, and how installations are going to work.

We should be able to provide people with a link to the Slackbot which allows them to install the Slackbot into their
workspace.

Handle bot not being in channel

When the bot is not in the channel, it appears that it is unable to post a message as a response to a slash command. We
should investigate how to handle this.

As a reference, the github slackbot is able to handle slash commands, even if it's not in a specific channel. We might
want to model our behavior on the github slackbot.

Set up CI/CD

We already have CI configured. We should also add CD to the project.

CD for this application will look like:

• A serverless deploy
• Sentry monitoring
• Release tagging (Github/Sentry)
• Updating a Slackbot app manifest (using the beta manifest API)

Investigate sending ephemeral messages

Gracefully handle lambda timeouts

New Mapbox API token

Faster Slack response times

Slack Slash Commands require that a response be sent within 3 seconds.

If Slack does not receive a response within 3 seconds, the user receives an error message but the lambda continues to run until it is done.

We need to figure out how to send an immediate acknowledgement response to Slack, but continue the process of finding vaccine appointments.

Set up Sentry

Use re-usable github actions for CI/CD

Github Actions supports re-usable workflows. Let's investigate that for CI/CD, and sharing the testing step.

Additional test coverage

As of pull request #3 , we don't really have coverage/tests for the following features:

• Lambda handlers
• Slack blocks generation

Let's get some test coverage going so that we can deploy with ease, and also set up CI/CD.