Making it easier to keep track of our participants, and inviting both participants and mentors to engage more in the community. Plus, it's written in Python! We figure we should be able to hack on our own infrastructure, in the project language.

- Keep track of participants' regular posts

- Link participants, projects, and mentors

- Produce reports

- Promote projects?

We're not really ready for outside contributions yet; so far, this is a proof of concept more than anything else. This project is run by [Ben](@ben@social.python-gsoc.org) in spare time.

from mastodon import Mastodon

from pathlib import PosixPath

import os.path

import argparse

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone

import dateparser

python_gsoc_url = 'https://social.python-gsoc.org/'

client_id = 'psf-gsoc-bot'

cred_path = PosixPath('~/.psf-gsoc-bot/clientcred.secret').expanduser()

def check_recent_posts(client: Mastodon, account_name: str, deadline: datetime):

today = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

week = timedelta(weeks=1)

initial_window = deadline - week

# take an account name

account = client.account_lookup(account_name)

# look up the posts, in order. Find the most recent.

posts = client.account_statuses(account['id'], exclude_reblogs = True, exclude_replies = True, limit=10)

print(f'Returned {len(posts)} posts.')

for post in posts:

print(post)

if (len(posts) > 0):

post = posts[0]

postdate = post['created_at']

print()

# Record when the most recent post was

print(f"Most recent post posted on: ({type(postdate)}) {postdate}, contents: {post['content']}")

# check the current date against the most recent deadline date.

# if the most recent post is not within a week of the most recent deadline,

if (today > deadline and postdate < initial_window):

# log that they're behind.

print(f"{account_name} hasn't posted in over a week.")

# send them a message and flag them in a list to the mentors & admins

def register_app():

print("Checking for registration.")

if not cred_path.exists():

print('No registration found.')

if not cred_path.parent.exists():

print(f'Config directory {cred_path.parent} missing.')

cred_path.parent.mkdir()

print(f'Registering as {client_id}.')

Mastodon.create_app(

client_id,

api_base_url = python_gsoc_url,

to_file = cred_path

)

register_app()

cred = cred_path.read_text()

mastodon = Mastodon(

client_id,

cred,

api_base_url = python_gsoc_url

)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='python-gsoc bot',

description='Checks up on users.')

parser.add_argument('-d', '--deadline')

args = parser.parse_args()

deadline = dateparser.parse(args.deadline)

if deadline is None:

print(f'{args.deadline} is not a correctly-formatted datetime.')

exit(1)

print(f'Deadline: {args.deadline} parsed as {deadline}')

check_recent_posts(mastodon, 'ben@social.python-gsoc.org', deadline)