reminders App is broken?

It looks like the heroku app that this bot used is no longer in service. Can someone create a new one?

Aug 05 '20 21:08 Relequestual

How do you know the heroku app isn’t in service anymore?

Oct 05 '20 17:10 warrenalphonso

How do you know the heroku app isn’t in service anymore?

If you click that link you get a 404 of sorts.

Oct 06 '20 16:10 steveoh

Yepp, can it be restored, please?

Oct 19 '20 09:10 Freakachoo

hello team! could anyone get this back to life? we were heavily dependent on the reminder bot in our repo 🙏

Oct 22 '20 10:10 eglenimbus

Our company loves your tool and we are missing it here! <3

Oct 22 '20 11:10 thomaspeitz

It's fairly easy to deploy your own?

Oct 22 '20 14:10 steveoh

is this dead?

Nov 23 '20 12:11 deep5050

The heroku instance (where app is running) is dead. So there a two ways. Somebody deploys a new instance to Glitch or Heroku, creates a new GitHub App and share it or anyone who will use it must do it themself for private usage.

It is a probot app and you will find further informations here https://probot.github.io/docs/deployment/

Nov 27 '20 09:11 lutz

FYI, I hope to have an update for those watching this thread shortly. Work is underway to migrate reminders to a GitHub Action, removing the need for deployment solutions

Mar 07 '21 07:03 jbjonesjr

FYI, I hope to have an update for those watching this thread shortly. Work is underway to migrate reminders to a GitHub Action, removing the need for deployment solutions

That's excellent news. Thank you for your work!

Mar 10 '21 20:03 renestefancic2

Oh I would love to switch to a github action! Keep us posted.

Apr 14 '21 17:04 steveoh

Hey there,

Do you have any news on the ongoing work about the reminders' version relying on GH Actions?

Jun 13 '21 07:06 pattacini

Still not work now.

Jun 16 '21 02:06 ShixiangWang

So myself and @stdavis created a pair of github actions to replace this bot. Please try it out and let us know what you think in the issues. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have org level github actions?!

https://twitter.com/MapUtah/status/1408215695335165954

Twitter
Utah UGRC #utmap on Twitter
“Hello @github friends! Our dev's have created their first github actions in the marketplace for reminding you to get stuff done.
https://t.co/xNxDblpu6S and https://t.co/S6Iw4vuk2I

formerly a probot reminder bot

No more things slipping through the cracks!

#utmap #github”

Jun 25 '21 00:06 steveoh

@steveoh This can only be applied to one repo, right?

Jun 25 '21 01:06 ShixiangWang

@steveoh This can only be applied to one repo, right?

Yes unfortunately it's a one at a time solution. But it's free and doesn't require a vm or serverless deployment.

Jun 25 '21 02:06 steveoh

@steveoh Thanks :).

Jun 25 '21 03:06 ShixiangWang

@derberg has been working on an approach to copy sets of files (like GH Actions) to mutliple repositires within an org. I thought I'd mention it in case he has anything to share on that work, not sure of the state of the project.

Jul 02 '21 13:07 Relequestual

thanks @Relequestual

There is no native support for org level actions yet and don't know when it will arrive. I crafted this action to support "global" actions. It is actively maintained as our lives depend on it at AsyncAPI.

Jul 02 '21 14:07 derberg

FYI, I hope to have an update for those watching this thread shortly. Work is underway to migrate reminders to a GitHub Action, removing the need for deployment solutions

@jbjonesjr any update? I'd like to archive this repository

For folks who want to have a single action that runs on multiple repositories I'd implement support for app authentication. Then users can register their own app, install it on any repository they want, and pass the app ID and private key as parameters to the github action.

I used this pattern several times and it works great. For example in https://github.com/gr2m/release-notifier-action

GitHub
gr2m/release-notifier-action
GitHub Action to notify repositories about the repository's releases using a GitHub App - gr2m/release-notifier-action

Jul 09 '21 22:07 gr2m

For all the people looking for an alternative that works without GitHub Actions:

I'm currently working on a GitHub reminder app called Octo Reminder. You can install it here.

It has all the functionality of the previous Probot Reminders app, plus:

Language Support (Currently en, fr, de, pt, nl, jp)
Timezones
Custom Commands

If you have any feedback or issues you can leave a message here 😊

Jan 29 '22 17:01 helloiamlukas

Great to see this project getting a new life. As an alternative, SnoozeThis has built-in reminder functionality as well, though it is more targeted towards snoozing issues until their dependencies are resolved (for example, waiting until another issue has been closed). And as such, you can't set a reminder message like with Octo Reminder. SnoozeThis requires no setup (though installing the app will enable more functionality). See below for a simple demo. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the contributors to that project)

@SnoozeThis wait 3 minutes

Mar 30 '22 08:03 tgmpje

(https://snoozeth.is/8_mPd6mdy5o) I will wait until Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:14:44 CEST and then add a comment.

SnoozeThis
SnoozeThis is a bot that holds on to your blocked tasks. By telling SnoozeThis what your tasks are waiting for, we can hand them back to you at the right time.