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Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by zekenie » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 4:59 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by zekenie » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:00 PM UTC

Queue29 wrote: post #3

IBM would like to have a word with you.

I don't understand

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by nhmood » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

chrisdevereux wrote: post #9

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.

As mentioned below, it currently has support for parsing C / C++, Java, C#, Bash, Ruby, Perl, and Python files

It is pretty trivial to add support for any other language or comment type however, take a look at #get_comment_type in lib/watson/parser.rb

Never, thought about offering this as a service, having this as a commit hook is a very interesting idea though, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by codegeek » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

zekenie wrote: post #12

Queue29 wrote: post #3

IBM would like to have a word with you.

I don't understand

Apparently, IBM has a project named "Watson". So he is referring to the name conflict [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6734100

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by WesleyJohnson » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

zekenie wrote: post #12

Queue29 wrote: post #3

IBM would like to have a word with you.

I don't understand

IBM's super computer that challenged the ultimate Jeopardy participant, Ken Jennings, is named Watson.

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by zekenie » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:04 PM UTC

zekenie wrote: post #12

Queue29 wrote: post #3

IBM would like to have a word with you.

I don't understand

Got it. Thanks

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by samirahmed » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

ozh wrote: post #4

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

Yea i wonder how he made those gifs. It would be interested in a js gif gallery library like that

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by girvo » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

nhmood wrote: post #5

ozh wrote: post #4

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

Thanks! The app is written in both Ruby and Perl but it currently has support for parsing C / C++, Java, C#, Bash, Ruby, Perl, and Python files

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...

Re: Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

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Post by w0rd-driven » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

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.