Is there a place where the reminder bot's syntax is described? I went to set a reminder and got nervous of saying something it didn't understand and then consequently producing a lot of noise while I tried to get it right. If you wrote this yourself and there is no documentation, a link to the source code is enough. :) Thanks, Richard

On Jul 29, 2019, at 4:18 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

no, in don't think so, the bot really just posts a message. Maybe it's good to set a public timer? Of course you can just put a reminder in your personal calendar if you worry about the noise.

Cheers, Joachim

Am 29. Juli 2019 19:55:25 MESZ schrieb Iavor Diatchki :

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Is there a way to set it up so that when people add "remind-me" fake messages no e-mail is sent to people subscribed to the thread?

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This is very helpful, thanks. The key bit of help is that it absolves me from feely guilty when I get it wrong. It's not an example of "garbage in, garbage out", but more of "garbage spec, garbage in". :) In any case, I do think this is very useful! Richard

On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:41 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

this is a bot, and I think bot is a euphemism for “Software without documented interface”…

It has a homepage with three examples: https://probot.github.io/apps/reminders/ and source at https://github.com/probot/reminders

It seems to use this node module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-reminder and, and it says “It aims to support all common forms of natural language for reminders”. Great! So just use common forms :-)

How about we simply make GHC use all common forms of syntax? Then we can disband this committee :-)

Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/

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