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Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by dudus on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:25AM (#21911013)
TODO, FIXME and XXX are built into tools already. Sure you can make new stuff up but it makes it harder to find later.
Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by ygra on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:08AM (#21911415)
Those things are configurable, though, so new markers are rarely problematic from a tooling perspective. Getting your teammates to agree on using the same markers is perhaps the bigger problem.
Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by dudus on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:38AM (#21913576)
Making them agree is not necessarily the hardest. But remembering to tell new team members in a year or two. Or revisiting the codebase in 5 years from now. I doubt you'll remember