repomate 1.0.1

A CLI tool for managing large amounts of GitHub repositories

repomate

Overview

repomate is A CLI tool for administrating large amounts of GitHub repositories, geared towards teachers and GitHub Enterprise. repomate is currently being used for the introductory courses in computer science at KTH Royal Technical Institute of Technology. The courses have roughly 200 students and several thousands of repositories, allowing us to test repomate at quite a large scale.

Getting started

The best way to get started with repomate is to head over to the Docs, where you (among other things) will find the install instructions and user guide.

Why repomate?

repomate was developed at KTH Royal Technical Institute of Technology to help teachers and teaching assistants administrate GitHub repositories. It is inspired by the old teachers_pet tool, with added features and a user experience more to our liking. Features range from creating student repositories based on master (template) repos, to opening and closing issues in bulk, to assigning peer reviews and cloning repos in bulk. Some parts of repomate can be customized using a simple but powerful plugin system. For example, the repomate-junit4 plugin allows for automatically running JUnit4 test classes on production code in student repos. Below is the output from running repomate -h, giving brief descriptions of each of the main features:

$ repomate -h
usage: repomate [-h] [-v]
                {show-config,setup,update,migrate,clone,open-issues,
                 close-issues,list-issues,assign-peer-reviews,
                 purge-peer-review-teams,check-peer-review-progress,
                 verify-settings}
                ...

A CLI tool for administering large amounts of git repositories on GitHub
instances. See the full documentation at https://repomate.readthedocs.io

positional arguments:
    {show-config,setup,update,migrate,clone,open-issues,
     close-issues,list-issues,assign-peer-reviews,
     purge-peer-review-teams,check-peer-review-progress,
     verify-settings}

    show-config         Show the configuration file
    setup               Setup student repos.
    update              Update existing student repos.
    migrate             Migrate master repositories into the target
                        organization.
    clone               Clone student repos.
    open-issues         Open issues in student repos.
    close-issues        Close issues in student repos.
    list-issues         List issues in student repos.
    assign-peer-reviews
                        Randomly assign students to peer review each others'
                        repos.
    purge-peer-review-teams
                        Remove all review teams associated with the specified
                        students and master repos.
    check-peer-review-progress
                        Fetch all peer review teams for the specified student
                        repos, and check which assigned reviews have been done
                        (i.e. which issues have been opened).
    verify-settings     Verify your settings, such as the base url and the
                        OAUTH token.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         Display version info

Roadmap

As of December 17th 2018, repomate is a stable release. The currently available commands will remain available for the foreseeable future, and any deprecation will be announced at least one minor version ahead of a feature being removed.

The plugin system is however still to be considered in the beta phase, as it has seen much less live action use. Features will however not be cut, as all of them are essential for the way I work personally.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for specifics.