Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

This is awesome. We the developers love to put those little comments in code for issues/to-dos and syncing it with Github is solid. looks like someone needs to fork it for Python ?

One question though. When an issue is resolved, would that actually go back to the source file and delete that inline comment OR would it add the text "resolved" etc. In both cases though, would we not need a new commit to that source file ? Or does it leave the inline comment in its original state ?

Great idea! I've wanted something like this for a while, but never quite realised it.

What languages does it support? From the look of the front pages, C-based languages (C/C++/Obj-C) are ok.

Have you thought about offering this as a service? You could probably hook into Github and sync issues on commit using the same API that Jenkins uses.

This is cool. I built something similar to this in Node. You start the tool and it monitors all files in your project folder for changes. Every time you save, it outputs a JSON object of all your tokened comments. The idea was to be able to plug it into another service, like a custom todo list app, or something like this. I haven't quite finished it, but maybe I'll clean it up a bit and push it to github this weekend.

IBM would like to have a word with you.

Agree with the general preface of not interrupting your flow with issue tracking. I've been using ghi (command line GitHub Issues)[1] and couldn't be happier.

[1] https://github.com/stephencelis/ghi

Sounds similar to guys who won ClojueCup: http://clojurecup.com/app.html?app=codenotes

Super nice. Combining this with most support for updating issues via commit messages this makes it stupid easy to almost never leave the code. The only thing you likely can't easily do is deal with issue comments but that would be killer too. Never having to use the githib UI would be the ultimate workflow boon. I'm never a fan of needing to access websites and remember their UI as it feels disjointed from my typical working experience.

I start one month ago a project with less or more the same concept! But this seems more powerful, and already done! :)

Btw if you are interested checkout: http://www.ideabile.com/tirebouchon/doc/?file=index.php ( Is just a small preview)

What did you use to create your gif screencasts?

The sync with Github is awesome, looks like it would be great.

I have always had "todolist" on my machine aliased to grep -r "TODO*:" .

This basically just searches for all the places where I have TODO comments. This looks like a better way to do this for teams.

Screenshots make this thing really interesting. Need to support more languages than just Ruby and Perl!

I helped to test this and have been using it since. it is much less disruptive to work flow to just add comments in one place rather than add comments and have to go through github's ui for work items, bugs, etc.

I love it. Good example of enriching the development environment without any kind of special files, databases, etc. Would be great to port it other issue trackers.

Looks awesome! If you remove the comment tag as part of a commit, does it / could it in future close the issue?

Nice concept! Love it. The two examples are perl and ruby. Does that mean it wouldn't work in, say, javascript?

Looks really promising! Would like to see this work for Gitlab also.

Great work. Cloning the repo now. :)

This. Is. Awesome.