Extending the team with a project-specific bot
This addresses automation needs for the Coq software team, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific project rather than introducing new methods.
The Coq team developed a custom bot for project-specific automation instead of using off-the-shelf solutions, enabling tailored features based on internal feedback.
While every other software team is adopting off-the-shelf bots to automate everyday tasks, the Coq team has made a different choice by developing and maintaining a project-specific bot from the ground up. In this article, we describe the reasons for this choice, what kind of automation this has allowed us to implement, how the many features of this custom bot have evolved based on internal feedback, and the technology and architecture choices that have made it possible.