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Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by Toury2d on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:47PM (#21910886)
That doesn't sound like it would scale at all for any more than a couple of devs.
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Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by john_moscow on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:54PM (#21910903)
Neither do TODO comments. This is just for a short-term "don't forget this piece before calling the current job done".

For anything more long-term you want to use a proper task management system with priorities, deadlines, dependencies and so on.

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