Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o...
by geofft on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:30AM
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Oh yeah, a TODO is way better than nothing, no disagreement there.
If you have a code review step, "please move this comment from the code to the commit message / the bugtracker / whatever" seems like a reasonable comment. If you don't or you're bypassing it or nobody does good code reviews, sure, leave the TODO in. I am indeed talking about the ideal world and whether we think TODO comments are a good idea in the abstract.
If you have a code review step, "please move this comment from the code to the commit message / the bugtracker / whatever" seems like a reasonable comment. If you don't or you're bypassing it or nobody does good code reviews, sure, leave the TODO in. I am indeed talking about the ideal world and whether we think TODO comments are a good idea in the abstract.