releasenotice

This is a rough little python script for automating notices of the release of software products to slack channels.

Install

git clone https://github.com/igable/releasenotice.git
python setup.py install

or get it from py PyPI

pip install -U releasenotice

Configure

Edit the config file with you messages and your slack API key:

vim releasenotice.conf

You can set the channel for the message, the bot name, and the emoji used.

You can obtain a Slack API token from https://api.slack.com/web (look near the bottom of the page)

Run

Post the message:

releasenotice --config-file releasenotice.conf --product exampleproduct --version 1.0.0

or load the config file from a URL. In this case you must set the environement variable SLACK_API_KEY, don't post your Slack API key to the web in the config file accidentally.

export SLACK_API_KEY=xoxp-0123456789-0123456789-0123456789-123a456
releasenotice --http-config-file https://gist.githubusercontent.com/igable/x/raw/y/releasenotice.conf --product mixcoatl --version 1.2.0

You will get a slack message like this: