Solid Slack Bridge (milestone wrapup)

[michielbdejong]

https://github.com/pondersource/solid-slack-bridge

Reza will publish this in the Slack marketplace, and then we'll list it as a 3000 euro milestone.

[michielbdejong]

It seems there were some blockers both with getting two-way sync working and with publishing to the Slack marketplace.
To do: discuss with @yasharpm

[michielbdejong]

Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd5joZkr5S4
Code: https://github.com/pondersource/solid-slack-bridge

[michielbdejong]

I'll test this now and then refactor it a bit so we can package it as part of the Chat data module.

[michielbdejong]

I'll hold off on refactoring the Solid-accessing code, in light of #135
But I'll work on:

• Persist sessions to database tubsproject/reflector#8
• Deploy and publish in a closed beta tubsproject/reflector#14
• Custom channel-to-channel mappings tubsproject/reflector#9
• Also sync in the other direction tubsproject/reflector#10
• Idempotency tubsproject/reflector#11
• Support for message editing tubsproject/reflector#12
• Support for replay tubsproject/reflector#13

[michielbdejong]

It's hard to know how perfect I want to make this before calling it done.
I now worked 36 specifically on Solid-Slack-Bridge and its rewrite into the start of the TUBS framework. The milestone is for 60 hours and although I did a lot of unplanned work on Pivot, it would feel better to spend another 20 hours or so on the rest of the goals listed.

I created a screencast of how far I got with it: https://youtu.be/MnMe7zvQvBo
Compared with the work that @yasharpm and @soltanireza65 did last year, this is mainly:

• me getting familiar with the code, how it interacts with Solid, and how it interacts with Slack
• code refactoring (splitting out the Solid client but not actually splitting out the Slack client)
• adding a database backend (although I didn't yet include unit tests and a database schema for it)

I'll hold off on submitting the RfP so I can improve it further.