I used LICEcap (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/) from Cockos to generate the GIFs

I wrote the rotating gallery myself, it auto-figures out the duration of the GIF and does cycling for you. I'll probably release it sometime soon...

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/

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!

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 exactly the sort of thing they were intended for

It currently leaves the inline comment in its original state. It didn't seem like a good idea to have an automated tool touch the code itself, watson leaves it up to the developer to remove the comment. The "resolved" tag only appears in the report when the issue is resolved on GitHub or Bitbucket to notify a user that they can either remove it or ignore working on that issue.

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...

Yeah PHP supports // or # as comments so the C language support gets you most of the way there if not all.

Just sent a pull request for CoffeeScript.

Thanks for the tool!