Markdown Cleanup Github Bot

MCBot = Markdown Cleanup Github Bot

Notes

In Theory

Here's how this thing works, in theory anyway:

• First, you set up a Github bot account - the user that will do your bidding.
• Next, you create a Github OAuth account as that user. This OAuth application will ask users for various permissions. One of those permissions is the ability to commit to repositories.
• This is still totally unclear.

How it works:

• Run the flask app somewhere (self-hosted, heroku, google app engine)
• Install a webhook in your repo that pings the endpoint, and only do on pull request events

Why I'm still confused:

• The OAuth application has an "owner" and it has "users"
• We're trying to build a bot that can comment on pull requests in private repositories
• Does the OAuth application simply need to request write permission for repos?
• Can the owner of the OAuth application then do what they'd like? Do the changes show up under the account of the OAuth application's owner?

Links

Useful: PR request hook (flask server) that comments on PRs from first-time contributors

• https://github.com/Deborah-Digges/pr-bot

Related

Also see DIY CI