github-democrat v0.1.0

Github Democrat

The Github Democrat is a bot that enforces democracy on a repository. It checks open pull requests and merge the ones that satisfy constraints.

The bot merges PRs that are:

• open
• mergeable
• prefixed with "RDY" (configurable)
• last commit is older than 24 hours
• voted positively (2 more reactions :+1: than :-1: on the PR description)

Installation

npm install

Edit / create the file .env to set the value GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN, GITHUB_ORGANIZATION and GITHUB_REPOSITORY.

GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN=12345awesometoken67890
GITHUB_ORGANIZATION=YourOrgName
GITHUB_REPOSITORY=RepoName
GITHUB_PULLREQUEST_DESCRIPTION_PREFIX_READYTOMERGE=[RDY]

.env variable are overriden by nodejs environment variables

Usage

npm start

In a cron that run every hour:

0 * * * * cd /path/to/github-democrat && /absolute/path/to/node src/run.js &>> /var/log/github-democrat.log