Auto-accept invites

Synapse module to automatically accept invites.

Compatible with Synapse v1.84.0 and later.

Installation

From the virtual environment that you use for Synapse, install this module with:

pip install synapse-auto-accept-invite

(If you run into issues, you may need to upgrade pip first, e.g. by running pip install --upgrade pip)

Then alter your homeserver configuration, adding to your modules configuration:

modules:
  - module: synapse_auto_accept_invite.InviteAutoAccepter
    config:
      # Optional: if set to true, then only invites for direct messages (1:1 rooms)
      # will be auto accepted.
      # Defaults to false.
      accept_invites_only_for_direct_messages: false

      # Optional: if set to true, then only invites from local users will be auto 
      # accepted.
      # Defaults to false.
      accept_invites_only_from_local_users: false

      # (For workerised Synapse deployments)
      #
      # This module should only be active on a single worker process at once,
      # otherwise invites may be accepted by multiple workers simultaneously.
      #
      # By default, this module is only enabled on the main process, and is disabled
      # on workers. To choose a worker to run this module on (to reduce load on the
      # main process), specify that worker's configured 'worker_name' below.
      #
      # Any worker may be specified. If this worker does not have the ability to
      # write to Synapse's events stream, it will end up calling out to one that
      # does.
      #
      #worker_to_run_on: workername1

A note about logging

Your Synapse logging configuration should have the following option set in it:

disable_existing_loggers: False

Without it, logging from this module (and potentially others) may not appear in your logs.

Development

In a virtual environment with pip ≥ 21.1, run

pip install -e .[dev]

To run the unit tests, you can either use:

tox -e py

or

trial tests

To run the linters and mypy type checker, use ./scripts-dev/lint.sh.

Releasing

1. Set a shell variable to the version you are releasing (this just makes subsequent steps easier):

   version=X.Y.Z
   

2. Update setup.cfg so that the version is correct.

3. Stage the changed files and commit.

   git add -u
   git commit -m v$version -n
   

4. Push your changes.

   git push
   

5. When ready, create a signed tag for the release:

   git tag -s v$version
   

   Base the tag message on the changelog.

6. Push the tag.

   git push origin tag v$version
   

7. Create a source distribution and upload it to PyPI:

   python -m build
   twine upload dist/synapse_auto_accept_invite-$version*