gitnotus

Manage the github events and notify the users

##gitnotus Command Line Interface gitnotus is a set of API's/tools written to manage github events. Event updates will be notified through web hooks.

The following are the core functionalities of the gitnotus CLI:

usage: gitnotus [-h] [-v]
               
	  {addrepo,listinfo,userinfo,list}

##Commands Option | Specification ------------ | ------------- addrepo | add new repository listinfo | get all user and repo info userinfo | display user info

$ gitnotus addrepo -h
usage: gitnotus addrepo [-h] username reponame email

positional arguments:
  username    get the user name
  reponame    get the repository name
  email       get the email address

$ gitnotus listinfo -h
usage: gitnotus listinfo [-h]

$ gitnotus userinfo -h
usage: gitnotus userinfo [-h] username

positional arguments:
  username    get the user name

##Configuration

• Make apache tomcat web server up and running
• Make an public URl to post the hook
• In local use ngrok.com to make an URL. Next two steps are required in case if you do not have an public domain
• download and install ngrok
• ./ngrok 8080
• Add the webhook URL to the git repo
• Start the webhook_handler to recieve json ./weghook_handler.py
• Start the local smtp server on port 1025 using the following command 'python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025' to send emails

##Modules: ###Webhook POST Listener:

• This module listens to the POST url which is hooked with the github api. And invoke mail api to send the notification

###JSON Parser

• This module the takes post request as JSON object and parse the commit/push information.
• And it includes commit message, files added, deleted, modified etc.

###Repo Maintainer

• This module stores and maintains the user and repo information as a pickle file. This also can be maintained in YAML or JSON files
• Every post request will be compared against this dictionary

##Licensing gitnotus is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for full license text.