Tool to automatically open issues when TODO is found

[molant]

There are quite a few TODO comments in the code and no issues associated. We should have a script that is run in travis (master) that:

• looks for all the TODO comments in the JS code (we probably just split by line)
• checks if the comment has a #ID somewhere or a url to the GitHub issue
  • if yes it doesn't do anything
  • if not
  • it creates a new issue in GitHub with the title as the TODO comment, and the body with the name of the file and the line number
  • adds the #id to the end of the comment and commits the changes

I don't think it will be super complicated and can probably be a separate project.\ There are some projects that do similar things, check todo search in npm. My 5 minute search didn't trigger anything like what I want but we should look a bit more into it.

[qzhou1607-zz]

Found one that might help : fixme-to-issue. Once a TODO is found not followed by an issue number, a new issue will be created with a description containing the file Path and line number information. And then the TODO comment gets updated with the newly generated issue number appended.

[molant]

It looks like it might work. We will still need to:

• [x] decide name of label(s) and colors
• [ ] share the credentials with the bot in a secure way (we can probably use the command line parameters and @alrra can say how to get the credentials when in Travis)
• [ ] add the step to the test-on-travis at the end once all tests are passed
• [ ] Commit the changes in the repo (if any) without triggering a new build

I think most of this things are for @alrra

[molant]

I've created this label for the issues created automatically.