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CS156 Guide

Anacapa Slack Bot

The Anacapa Slack Bot is an in-house Slack application developed as part of the UCSB CS GitHub Linker tool. While the Slack bot is mostly intended to be an admin / instructor tool for analyzing Slack activity, every member of the class can benefit from the “/whois” command, which can be used to identify a student’s team and GitHub username.

Installation

The Anacapa Slack Bot is installed via a button in the github-linker app. Just click the Add to Slack button, as illustrated below

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You may need to actually open up the various drop down menus to review the permissions on the screens that pop up to review them.

/whois command

In any Slack channel in the workspace that Anacapa Slack Bot has been added to, you can use the following command:

/whois @user

where @user is a Slack mention of the student whose info you would like to look up. This must be a Slack mention - simply inputting a username isn’t enough here.

The Anacapa Slack Bot will respond with the following basic information about a student:

GitHub ID: andrewhlu, Student: Andrew Lu, Section: 4pm Teams: s22-4pm-1

Additionally, a few values have hyperlinks. Specifically:

  • The student’s GitHub ID has a hyperlink to their GitHub profile
  • The student’s name has a hyperlink to their student profile in the UCSB CS GitHub Linker tool (usable by instructors / TAs to view information about a student’s repository permissions and contributions)
  • The team name has a hyperlink to the team in GitHub’s teams interface