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 • Make `/puzzle` for a meta puzzle also display the names/answers of
27 all puzzles in the round.
29 • Add /tag to add/remove tags (will force to all caps and store as a
30 prefix as part of the state string for now)
32 Specifically, this should be "/tag TAG_NAME" or "/tag +TAG_NAME" to
33 add a tag and "/tag -TAG_NAME" to remove a tag.
35 Recently-proposed ideas (not yet prioritized)
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37 • Set-up an announcements Slack channel that's auto fed by email to a
38 particular email address.
40 • Have Turbot explicitly report long state strings to the channel,
41 (since the implicit report from settting the abbreviated topic won't
42 have the whole message).
44 • In messages (like from /solved) don't use a raw user_name value from
45 the request, but instead some tagged version of a user ID (which
46 Slack will render as a display name).
48 • Allow a hunt (and perhaps a round) to have multiple URLs
50 • Provide an "Archive channel" button in the channel when outputting
51 the message that results from /solved.
53 • Would it be helpful to have some sort of "tools" command to collect
54 pointers to useful tools and allow for searching of them?
56 • Investigate what from snap2 we could incorporate into our sheets:
58 https://github.com/kevinychen/snap2
60 • Watch the recent hunt workshop that had some recommendations on
61 tools and see what from that we should incorporate
63 • Think about writing some custom solving tools, (like Qat, or
64 Nutrimatic, or Snap2, etc.)
66 • Fix slash commands to pass off processing to a separate Lambda and
67 then return immediately (removing the annoying "operation timeout"
68 complaints from Slack even when the command works exactly as it
74 • Select round fields by default based on the round of the puzzle for
75 the channel in which `/puzzle` is invoked.
77 • Consider putting a round prefix into the channel name to group a
78 round's puzzles in the channel list.
80 Hunt overview commands and filters
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83 • On the Turbot home screen allow a dropdown for Unsolved/Solved/All
86 • On the Turbot home screen add a text box for a search hstring (to
87 work like the search string now available in "/hunt").
92 • Incorporate puzzle file uploads into the database state for each
93 puzzle. Any file uploaded to the Slack should get included
94 initially, but when editing a puzzle users can drop irrelevant files
95 or label relevant files.
97 Opt-in for channel invitations
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100 • Consider adding a user option to allow a user to opt-in to auto
101 invitation for all newly-created puzzle channels
106 • Add the solution to the sheet name on solved: "[TITLE] - Solved [ANSWER]"
108 • Use a hunt-specific Google Drive folder for creating all the
109 sheets. (This way, we can share out the "mh2021" folder to all team
110 members so that people can browse the sheets that way if wanted, and
111 have backup access to all of them on the off chance of Slack not
114 • Come up with a better sheet template (Nathan has got one available here:
116 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1drSoyrE4gM3JaGweDkOybwXWdKPIDTfUmB1gQCYS3Uw/edit#gid=1471575838
118 • Put the puzzle's name into the primary tab of the sheet
120 • When copying tabs from the spreadsheet template, don't leave the
121 default "Copy of " text in place.
123 • Do something to make it more clear which tabs exist just as
124 backup/reference from the original template vs. any new tab a user
125 has created during the hunt. (Perhaps color the reference tabs
131 • Add support for recording/displaying those who have current roles
133 Maybe this should just be a "Post" in the main hunt channel, (and
134 need not have any direct Turbot support?)
136 • Think about some way to express solve priority
141 • Implement code to close out an entire hunt after the fact
143 • Figure out what tool we want to use for shared drawing on a puzzle
144 and integrate that into Turbot, (give a command that will generate a
145 new URL and will insert that URL into the Slack topic and the list
146 of links at the top of the sheet).
148 • Think about using a URL shortener API for the sheet URLs (to leave
149 more room in a channel topic for state string content)