i3-github-bot is a GitHub web hook running on Google AppEngine. It replaces i3-new-ticket which we used before migrating to GitHub.
The purpose of i3-github-bot is to ensure that we get high-quality bug reports and to automate as much of the standard communication about bugs as possible, i.e. we want to automatically make people aware that they need to tell us the i3 version number they’re using and supply us a debug log file so that we can see what’s going on. Before writing i3-new-ticket, these were by far the most common interactions on newly reported bugs, and automating that part of the reporting process is valuable for the user and for our developers.
In addition to automated checks of the version number, we also provide a tiny service to host i3 debug log files, since GitHub does not allow attachments at the time of writing. See i3/docs/debugging for usage instructions.
To deploy a new version, use gcloud app deploy from the Google Cloud
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