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Add rule for tracking all the conventional comments in code like FIXME, TODO, HACK

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
devtools, tooling

Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named. Start by locating existing PSScriptAnalyzer rule implementations and their tests, then trace how analysis results are exported to SonarQube. Done means conventional comments such as TODO and FIXME are detected with the requested message severities and covered by tests.

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Description

Issue - New Rule Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Summary of the new feature

I'd like to see notifications/warnings/info messages about conventional comments detected in code, e.g.

# FIXME : something that does not work properly in some conditions
# TODO - unfinished work
# HACK bad place, dirty trick

Also we export code analysis results to SonarQube and since there is no such rule, I cant see all the technical debt mentioned in the whole codebase.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

A rule needs to be created. TODO comments should have info/hint status, FIXME and others may have warning status.

Here is what I see in SonarQube for C# repo
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I'd like to have the same information for Powershell repo.

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What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing

1.23.0

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