David J. M. Karlsen

It seems these command only work in context of a channel? I am having a hard time understanding https://github.com/ndaversa/hubot-jira-bot/blob/master/src/jira/comment.coffee clearly

@ndaversa WDYT?

@ndaversa ping?

@joho ping?

@arsoba PTAL?

@rampatra ping?

See: https://github.com/rampatra/jbot/issues/38#issuecomment-453230137 and the link there - have special meaning (linking) in slack - and thus you want to not encode them into &lt etc

If you want to encode or not depends on the outcome you want to achieve. I would say that the current implementation is a bit naive and falls short (and...

@rampatra did you follow? do you need more info?

@rampatra ping?