What I'd like is to have a list of project names I am interested in, let the bots use the project names in their messages, and then have the client ping me when something interesting is mentioned.
Propane has custom mention support where you can enter a bunch of strings, but it doesn't really work.
Use different rooms (with relavent people in each room), or make your bot smarter (we do both). You could easily make it so a given user could 'subscribe' to a project by sending a message to the bot. i.e. '@companybot subcribe xyz-service'. Then have the bot keep track of those and automatically at-message the interested people upon failures etc. IMO opinion, different rooms are still better, because it brings everyone together when there's an issue also, but it depends how large an organization you have.
We don't have a bot. Every service that does notification uses the native plugin to do so; Errbit has a Campfire plugin, Jenkins has one, etc.
While we could possibly write a custom bot that centralized everything and tied all the services together, that is going to be a fair amount of work for something that ought to exist already.
What I'd like is to have a list of project names I am interested in, let the bots use the project names in their messages, and then have the client ping me when something interesting is mentioned.
Propane has custom mention support where you can enter a bunch of strings, but it doesn't really work.