Watson
Dev tools
issue tracking
SHOW HN2013
156points
35comments
#111of 1,739 in 2013
Top 7%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
10 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean concept that keeps developers in their workflow
From 3 comments
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…
crowell on HNSuper 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…
w0rd-driven on HNI 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.
blt on HN
GitHub sync is useful
From 2 comments
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…
codegeek on HNThe 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…
habosa on HN
Objections
Name conflicts with IBM Watson
From 2 comments
IBM would like to have a word with you.
Queue29 on HNApparently, IBM has a project named "Watson". So he is referring to the name conflict [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6734100
codegeek on HN
Requests
Support more languages such as PHP and JavaScript
From 3 comments
Should be pretty simple to get it working with PHP right? Also, any plans for GitLab issues support? If not, that might be fun to hack on this weekend...
girvo on HNJust sent a pull request for CoffeeScript. Thanks for the tool!
scotth on HNNice concept! Love it. The two examples are perl and ruby. Does that mean it wouldn't work in, say, javascript?
zekenie on HN
GitLab support
From 2 comments
Should be pretty simple to get it working with PHP right? Also, any plans for GitLab issues support? If not, that might be fun to hack on this weekend...
girvo on HNLooks really promising! Would like to see this work for Gitlab also.
wubbfindel on HN
Run as a git hook or commit hook
From 2 comments
What about encouraging use/automated installation of local git hooks, ie. run watson locally after a successful push. I've just begun looking at git hooks but this seems like…
finnn on HNGreat 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…
chrisdevereux on HN
Questions
Does resolving an issue remove the inline comment?
From 2 comments
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…
codegeek on HNLooks awesome! If you remove the comment tag as part of a commit, does it / could it in future close the issue?
joshschreuder on HN
Which languages are supported?
From 2 comments
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…
chrisdevereux on HNScreenshots make this thing really interesting. Need to support more languages than just Ruby and Perl!
ozh on HN
Alternatives named
todo.txt
From 1 comment
What a clean, concise approach to both the tool and the demo. Watson also reminds me of Gina Trapani's todo.txt[1], which I love. 1. http://todotxt.com/
Procrastes on HN
ghi command line GitHub issues
From 1 comment
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]…
5vforest on HN
grep for TODO comments
From 1 comment
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…
habosa on HN
Codenotes ClojureCup app
From 1 comment
Sounds similar to guys who won ClojueCup: http://clojurecup.com/app.html?app=codenotes
podviaznikov on HN