1 Ordered punch-list (aiming to complete by 2021-01-08)
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4 • Add the puzzle edit dialog (initially connected only to :pencil:)
6 • Ensure that both spreadsheet and channel are updated in response to
9 • Rename puzzle creation command from /puzzle to /puzzle new
11 • Add new /puzzle giving puzzle status (and including :pencil:)
13 • Add new /puzzle edit as a shortcut instead of /puzzle followed by
16 • Add /round as a shortcut for existing /hunt all <round-name> (and
17 slightly different in that it won't actually return a puzzle from
18 some other round that happens to have a name that matches this
21 • Add "meta" as a checkbox field on puzzle creation/edit
23 • Tweak /hunt and /round to treat meta puzzles as special (sort them
24 first and add some META label)
26 • Add /tag to add/remove tags (will force to all caps and store as a
27 prefix as part of the state string for now)
29 Specifically, this should be "/tag TAG_NAME" or "/tag +TAG_NAME" to
30 add a tag and "/tag -TAG_NAME" to remove a tag.
32 Recently-proposed ideas (not yet prioritized)
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34 • Set-up an announcements Slack channel that's auto fed by email to a
35 particular email address.
37 • Have Turbot explicitly report long state strings to the channel,
38 (since the implicit report from settting the abbreviated topic won't
39 have the whole message).
41 • In messages (like from /solved) don't use a raw user_name value from
42 the request, but instead some tagged version of a user ID (which
43 Slack will render as a display name).
45 • Allow a hunt (and perhaps a round) to have multiple URLs
47 • Provide an "Archive channel" button in the channel when outputting
48 the message that results from /solved.
50 • Would it be helpful to have some sort of "tools" command to collect
51 pointers to useful tools and allow for searching of them?
53 • Investigate what from snap2 we could incorporate into our sheets:
55 https://github.com/kevinychen/snap2
57 • Watch the recent hunt workshop that had some recommendations on
58 tools and see what from that we should incorporate
60 • Think about writing some custom solving tools, (like Qat, or
61 Nutrimatic, or Snap2, etc.)
63 • Fix slash commands to pass off processing to a separate Lambda and
64 then return immediately (removing the annoying "operation timeout"
65 complaints from Slack even when the command works exactly as it
71 • Select round fields by default based on the round of the puzzle for
72 the channel in which `/puzzle` is invoked.
74 • Consider putting a round prefix into the channel name to group a
75 round's puzzles in the channel list.
77 Hunt overview commands and filters
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80 • On the Turbot home screen allow a dropdown for Unsolved/Solved/All
83 • On the Turbot home screen add a text box for a search hstring (to
84 work like the search string now available in "/hunt").
89 • Incorporate puzzle file uploads into the database state for each
90 puzzle. Any file uploaded to the Slack should get included
91 initially, but when editing a puzzle users can drop irrelevant files
92 or label relevant files.
94 Opt-in for channel invitations
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97 • Consider adding a user option to allow a user to opt-in to auto
98 invitation for all newly-created puzzle channels
103 • Add the solution to the sheet name on solved: "[TITLE] - Solved [ANSWER]"
105 • Use a hunt-specific Google Drive folder for creating all the
106 sheets. (This way, we can share out the "mh2021" folder to all team
107 members so that people can browse the sheets that way if wanted, and
108 have backup access to all of them on the off chance of Slack not
111 • Come up with a better sheet template (Nathan has got one available here:
113 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1drSoyrE4gM3JaGweDkOybwXWdKPIDTfUmB1gQCYS3Uw/edit#gid=1471575838
115 • Put the puzzle's name into the primary tab of the sheet
117 • When copying tabs from the spreadsheet template, don't leave the
118 default "Copy of " text in place.
120 • Do something to make it more clear which tabs exist just as
121 backup/reference from the original template vs. any new tab a user
122 has created during the hunt. (Perhaps color the reference tabs
128 • Add support for recording/displaying those who have current roles
130 Maybe this should just be a "Post" in the main hunt channel, (and
131 need not have any direct Turbot support?)
133 • Think about some way to express solve priority
138 • Implement code to close out an entire hunt after the fact
140 • Figure out what tool we want to use for shared drawing on a puzzle
141 and integrate that into Turbot, (give a command that will generate a
142 new URL and will insert that URL into the Slack topic and the list
143 of links at the top of the sheet).
145 • Think about using a URL shortener API for the sheet URLs (to leave
146 more room in a channel topic for state string content)