Report roulette is a small binary that uses the GitLab API to elect a person in charge of writing the report of a meeting. It is also capable of automatically gathering members of a group.
At work, for some meetings, we need to fire a roulette to elect who's writing the meeting report. Like in all companies, people come and quit the company. So, instead of maintaining a script with a list of people, I wrote this small tool to gather the member lists of the concerned groups that are generally up-to-date.
go install github.com/themimitoof/report-roulette
You need to generate a Personal Access Token with at least the api for the environment variable GITLAB_TOKEN.
By default, it uses the public GitLab.com instance. If you use a self-hosted one, you can specify the host by using the environment variable GITLAB_HOST.
export GITLAB_TOKEN=glpat-....
export GITLAB_HOST=gitlab.example.com→ report-roulette -help
Usage of ./report-roulette:
-n Don't display the list of people in the roulette.
-s Output the name directly instead of a phrase.
→ report-roulette @chap-api yann +pouet
Users in the roulette:
- A... (a...)
- A... (c...)
- Michael Vieira (themimitoof)
- O... (a...)
- P... (p...)
- pouet
- Y... (yann)
The roulette stopped on pouet!
You can ask to report-roulette to gather the member list of one or multiple groups by using the @ character:
→ report-roulette @chap-api @squad-account
Users in the roulette:
- A... (a...)
- A... (c...)
- Michael Vieira (themimitoof)
- O... (a...)
- P... (p...)
The roulette stopped on Michael Vieira (themimitoof)!
You can also add/mix users:
→ report-roulette themimitoof gitlab_bot dummy
Users in the roulette:
- Elmo the bot 🤖 (gitlab_bot)
- Michael Vieira (themimitoof)
- Y... (dummy)
The roulette stopped on D... (dummy)!
If for unknown reasons, an intruder joined the meeting but is not part of the company, you can add it by prepending the + character to its name:
→ report-roulette themimitoof gitlab_bot dummy +Richard
Users in the roulette:
- Elmo the bot 🤖 (gitlab_bot)
- Michael Vieira (themimitoof)
- Richard
- Y... (dummy)
The roulette stopped on Michael Vieira (themimitoof)!
If you want to hide the list of persons, you can use the -n flag and pipe the output to let a cow announce the winner:
→ report-roulette -n themimitoof gitlab_bot dummy +Richard | cowsay
______________________________________
/ The roulette stopped on Elmo the bot \
\ 🤖 (gitlab_bot)! /
--------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
You can also ask to only expose the name if you want it by using the -s flag:
→ report-roulette -n themimitoof gitlab_bot dummy +Richard
Richard
That's all about report-roulette!
This project is released under the 3-Clause BSD license.