Make RSVPBot run natively on the Zulip server

[showell]

Hi, I'm one of the core developers for the Zulip project. We are interested in integrating this bot to the Zulip project and running it natively on the Zulip servers. It would require some minor restructuring of the code, so we may just fork it, or we may try to contribute patches.

If this idea interests you, please either reply here or find me on the public Zulip instance:

https://zulip.tabbott.net/#narrow/stream/bots

[wtfcarlos]

Really looking forward to this! Excited for integrating RSVPBot to core Zulip

[alexandrinaw]

If help is needed on either the Zulip or RSVPBot side, I'd be happy to lend a hand :)

[showell]

@alexandrinaw That would be great! We are discussing how to proceed on the following public Zulip instance: https://zulip.tabbott.net/#narrow/stream/bots/topic/RSVPBot

On the RSVPBot side, we need to restructure the code a bit to separate driver kind of stuff (e.g. fabfile) from library kind of stuff more at the directory level than is currently happening, just so it's a little easier to share code between the projects.

On the Zulip side, which you're welcome to help with, we need to expose more of the API to RSVPBot within our own driver, which is here:

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/contrib_bots/run.py#L17

I can give you more context if we talk on Zulip, but here's another link worth reading:

https://github.com/showell/bot_farm