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Support Go coverage natively

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
github-actions, go, python
Domain
ci-cd, testing

Research direction

Start by examining how the action currently accepts and processes Cobertura reports, then compare that flow with Go's native Coverage Profile format. The linked gocover-cobertura project provides a reference for the input format. Done means the action accepts Go coverage output directly without requiring a conversion program.

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Description

Hey,

This action requires cobertura, it would be nice if we could pipe directly the Go native Coverage Profile into this Action to simplify the setup process.

Right now I have to use a second program to convert the result into a cobertura format: https://github.com/boumenot/gocover-cobertura, which I would like to avoid for simplicity reasons and less dependency

I can make an PR, if it's fine

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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