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Why didn't they just use hubot with the pagerduty script? hubot integrates into hipchat, pretty sure irc too, but maybe not. I would think writing that connector would have been easier than creating a whole new "bot" though.

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We don't currently use Hubot internally. We've certainly thought about it, but we've also had chat bots at Stripe for a number of years (and writing a chat bot isn't actually that difficult), and consequently it's never been a clear enough win to port our existing stuff.

We would be more than happy to see someone port Pagerbot to use Hubot instead, though.

Hubot has pagerduty integration already: https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scri...

Cool. Looks like it has some similar features/workflows to Pagerbot, and some different.

Not everyone wants to use hubot. I actually think having a communally maintained bit as part of an engineering group can be kinda fun, but to each their own.

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