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Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by kaetemi on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:05AM (#21911400)
Yep. Tracker is for stuff that definitely will get planned in. TODO's are just little reminders for when returning to a piece of code some time in the future.

For actual immediate tasks, a TODO_123 with the active ticket number is more practical when stubbing some partially written code.

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