Penny

Penny is a Swift bot that works for the Vapor community.

Features

• Give coins to the members when they're "thanked".
• Automatically ping members based on the ping-words they have set up.
  • Implemented as /auto-pings slash command.
• Respond to certain command-texts with predefined answers.
  • Implemented as /faqs slash command.
• Automatically respond to commonly asked questions.
  • Implemented as /auto-faqs slash command.
• Automate SemVer releases and report on Discord.
• Report GitHub PRs and Issues on Discord.
• Report Swift evolution proposals on Discord.
• Report Swift releases on Discord.
• Report StackOverflow questions on Discord.
• Connect members' Discord & GitHub accounts for better integrations.
• Thank members when they contribute to Vapor repositories.
• Manage sponsor/backer status of GitHub users.

Infrastructure

Penny's AWS infrastructure resources are managed via Terraform. This includes ECS, Lambdas, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager. See infra/README.md for more info.

Automatic Releases

Penny detects usage of specific labels in PRs and tries to act accordingly and automatically tag a new release when an applicable PR is merged.

The related labels are:

• semver-patch
• semver-minor
• semver-major
• semver-noop
• release
• prerelease
• no-release-needed

Some other notes:

• semver-major and release are of limited use for automatic releases. Penny won't do a whole major release by itself since those are rare and they can be risky to do.
• Use prerelease label in combination with another semver label like semver-patch to make sure Penny can correctly create a prerelease, when a prerelease is needed.
  • For example when you have a v5.0.0-alpha.1 release and want Penny to tag v5.0.0-alpha.2 next.
• Try to use no-release-needed or semver-noop when no release is needed.