Corobo Enhancement - Security, Testing and Configurability

Work Done

1. Security Enhancements:
   1. Gave developers the right to invite newcomers.
   2. Removed automatic invite through ‘Hello World’ and ‘invite me’
   3. Newcomers won’t get assigned to more than one newcomer issue.
   4. Added a bot command to ban and unban a user from all the rooms at once.
   5. Made important plugins private to members of the organization.
2. Testing Enhancements:
   1. Implemented functionality in Errbot to inject mock objects in a plugin while testing.
   2. Implemented functionality in Errbot to test multi-line commands.
   3. Implemented a custom CoroboTestCase to ease testing of plugins.
   4. Implemented a custom LabHubTestCase to test labhub dependent plugins.
   5. All the tests now use TestCases rather then handling the bot themselves.
3. Configurability:
   1. Implemented a DefaultConfigMixin to configure the plugins at the time of deployment.
   2. LabHub now uses activation method instead of init.
   3. Answer, LabHub, SpammingAlert and WolframAlpha can now be configured through chat and can be adapted by other organizations.

Challenges

Most things went smoothly. The biggest challenge for me was to design the testing infrastructure to make testing of plugins easier but I am grateful to my helful mentors for supporting and making the task easier.

Work to be done

Teams in LabHub plugins are still coala specific and need to be made configurable. Community stats should be moved out of LabHub and to be made configurable along with explain plugin.