Reference configuration for Hecate Dispatch https://hecate.co/products/dispatch

hecate.yml

# Required: an admin contact for errors, billing issues, and the like
admin_email: [email protected]
# Optional: timezone for when to send and how to format emails
#           defaults to "Australia/Melbourne"
timezone: "Australia/Melbourne"

# Required: config for shipping news (notify on merged PRs)
shipping:
  # Array of release notifications to send
  -
    # Example: Instant email on pull request merge
    emails:
      - [email protected]
      - [email protected]
    # Required: config for which repos to listen to
    matching:
      # Manually whitelist repos
      whitelist: ["product", "other-product"]
      # Optional: notify only on merges to this branch
      # default is any branch (ie all merges)
      base_branch: develop
  -
    # Example: Standard daily rollup, send all releases 
    #          over all repos in a daily summary
    #          sent at 8am in your timezone
    emails:
      - [email protected]
    rollup: daily
    matching:
      all: true
  -
    # Example:  Rollup with all the custom settings
    emails:
      - [email protected]
    # Optional: switches from live updates to rollup
    #           valid values are daily and weekly
    rollup: daily
    # Optional: per notification timezone override
    timezone: "America/Los_Angeles"
    # Optional: don't send on weekends and
    #           hold updates for Monday morning.
    #           defaults to true
    weekends_matter: false
    # Optional: hour of the day to send rollup (0..23)
    #           default 8
    hour_of_day: 13
    matching:
      # All repos you granted access to via Github
      all: true
      # Exclude PRs with the following labels
      excluding_labels: ["tech-debt", "ops"]
  -
    # Example: Slack notifications of merges
    #          To enable visit https://app.hecate.co/,
    #          login with GitHub Oauth, and click the 
    #          "Add to Slack" button on the settings page
    slack_channels: ["releases"]
    matching:
      whitelist: ["product"]
  -
    # Example: Instant email when label added to PR
    emails: ["marketing.department"]
    # Optional: labelled or merged (default merged)
    trigger: labelled
    matching:
      all: true
      labels: ["for-announcement"]

Can Slack notifications be sent as DMs as well as to channels?

@yfg