Sonarqube Enterprise Edition Version 8.3.1 (build 34397)
We are systematically reviewing Java rules and our plan is to apply a “reviewed-accepted” or “reviewed-rejected” tag on a rule as our indicator of having dispositioned a rule. It’s easy to select these tags to see the set of items that have them on it, but each time we return to the task we want to start with the inverse set of rules, i.e. !(tag=reviewed-accepted OR tag=reviewed-rejected"). I couldn’t find a reference for search syntax such as this.
Another approach would be to bulk tag all rules with “not-reviewed” and then work through those, updating the tag as we go, but I didn’t see a way to bulk tag. There’s hundreds of Java rules…