Standup
Summary
Standup is a system for capturing status updates. It is designed to help teams keep each other up to date with what's going on without requiring additional meetings. It can help surface blockers and other issues that impede progress.
Standup consists of a website and an IRC bot on irc.mozilla.org allowing you to post status messages through the website or via the bot on IRC.
Standup has an API allowing anyone to build systems to interact with it. (Note: The API is a work in progress--if you're interested in helping, let us know.)
Standup is an Open Source project. All code is available in the Github repository.
News
- September 7th, 2016: Undergoing a rewrite in Django.
Team
Current Standup admin:
- pmac: Paul McLanahan
- willkg: Will Kahn-Greene
Project details
- code
- Website: https://github.com/mozilla/standup
- IRC bot: https://github.com/mozilla/standup-irc
- issue tracker
- Website: https://github.com/mozilla/standup/issues
- IRC bot: https://github.com/mozilla/standup-irc/issues
- Note: When in doubt, file bugs in the Standup website issue tracker.
- IRC: We hang out on #standup on irc.mozilla.org
How do I ...?
Create an account
Go to Standup and create an account there.
Post a status message
You can post a status through the web-site or through the irc bot.
Via the website:
- Log in to Standup
- Post status using the form
Via the irc bot:
- Talk to the bot--see examples later in this document
Status message formatting
Status messages can be formatted roughly using Markdown with some other bits. Here's a key:
| markup | explanation |
|---|---|
| #hashtag | Just like other social media services, Standup supports hashtags! Some hashtags have special meaning. All hashtags get re-printed at the beginning of your status message. |
| bug #n and bug n | Will link this text to a Mozilla Bugzilla url for the bug. |
| pull #n and pull n | Will link this text to a pull request for the project the status update was posted under. |
Create, manage or remove teams
Standup has the ability to group people and projects into a team. This lets you see the team's status messages which may cross projects and irc channels.
To create, manage and remove teams, contact a Standup admin.
File an issue for a bug or new feature
Go to https://github.com/mozilla/standup/issues and file something there.
Contribute patches, fix bugs, test and so on
Standup is built by you. Development is currently managed in a Github repository.