raffle

[ryanguill]

Allow ops to create a raffle and allow users to enter through DM.

OP commands:

• !raffle -create {description} will create a new raffle
• !raffle -update {description} will update the description
• !raffle -cooldown {cooldown} will set the cooldown in minutes. If you don't run this command the default will be 60 minutes.
• !raffle -reset will clear the current raffle and votes
• !raffle -pick will pick a user from the raffle and announce the winner. Doesn't reset anything, you can run pick as many times as you need to. Not going to implement earlier winner exclusion in the beginning.

User Commands

• !raffle will show the current raffle
• !ticket in a DM will enter the user in the raffle and show how many tickets they have

[ryanguill]

!raffle output would be either:

there is no active raffle

or

{raffle description}
Direct message @watney the command !ticket to enter.  You can enter every {cooldown}

[ryanguill]

I also added !raffle -listtickets but only in a DM

[atuttle]

Would be nice to be able to set a ticket limit... E.g. only one ticket per person per raffle.

Love the idea though. I'm going to use it to give away copies of my book regularly!

[ryanguill]

Would be nice to be able to set a ticket limit... E.g. only one ticket per person per raffle.

You got it boss.

[ryanguill]

• Update help and opsHelp

[ryanguill]

Need to do some cleanup on the code at some point, there are a couple ugly parts. stringTemplates would probably help too. One thing I think we will run into is that you can only have one raffle going at a time - but supporting multiples adds quite a bit of complexity.

It would also be nice to be able to set a reminder for a specific channel that sends a message every so many minutes or after so many messages to announce / remind of the raffle - but I think this functionality should be more generic and available for a lot of uses and I want to think about it some more.

[atuttle]

What do you guys think of this?

• While there's an active raffle
• Every hour on the hour
• If the last message to #cfml-general wasn't the raffle reminder, then remind (as if someone had typed !raffle)

[ryanguill]

I want to set this up in the core as something you can register for, so that we dont have a bunch of plugins with their own timers. So something like

bot.register({
type: 'interval',
pattern: {milliseconds: 1000 * 60 * 60},
f: foo,
...

then you could do whatever logic in the handling function. I want to use the same functionality for the rss watchers and bug announcers.

[atuttle]

👍

[ryanguill]

add the following:

• !raffle -addOwner @username Allow a user to close / pick winners / update the raffle, etc. Add multiple users
• !raffle -owners
• !raffle -close stop allowing tickets to be dispensed
• !raffle -open reopen a closed raffle
• allow owners and ops to set a UTC datetime that the raffle should close

[atuttle]

Would !raffle -owners:add @username be germane? It kinda resembles the heroku toolbelt approach, which I'm personally fond of. Not sure how many other commands already exist that this would be inconsistent with though...

[ryanguill]

im not against it, when it comes time to work on this ill research if there are anything that would be inconsistent.