Support Kotlin projects

[sschuberth]

Are files being searched for TODOs somehow filtered by language / file extension? Because in our project written in Kotlin I miss a lot of TODOs from the code base.

[patrickdevivo]

Hi @sschuberth thanks for opening up an issue! Currently, tickgit relies on this library to do language detection. It then applies rules defined here to know how to "pluck" out comments in specific languages (and search them for TODO comments, etc). It looks like Kotlin is "recognizable", but tickgit doesn't yet know how to parse Kotlin comments. I should be able to add support fairly easily, and will open a PR to do so soon.

That being said, I've been working (on a local branch) to update tickgit with a newer comment parsing/identifying strategy leveraging a syntax highlighting package that should have "out of the box" support for a lot of languages without having to maintain an independent list within the tickgit source.

I will reference this issue when the PR is created, so you should be notified!

[patrickdevivo]

@sschuberth please see https://www.tickgit.com/browse?repo=github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort, does that look better? If you're interested, feel free to add a badge!

[sschuberth]

Thanks for the background info and fast fix!

If you're interested, feel free to add a badge!

Done: oss-review-toolkit/ort#2576 😀