Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects

Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by mekkkkkk on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:30AM (#27181216)

The growing number is hardly surprising, yet I don't know exactly what the implications are. There are a lot of different categories of TODOs, ranging from harmless ("it would be nice if this was improved at some point") to critical ("this is a really bad solution that needs to be fixed ASAP"). I wonder if these repos has official definitions of what a TODO entails.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by mnahkies on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:49AM (#27181336)

Perhaps we should be including a priority in such comments, eg:

TODO: high: don't use bogosort

Would only be useful if it became a defacto standard though

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by esyir on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:14AM (#27181465)

At that point, make an issue and add it to the tracker.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by schleiss on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:14AM (#27181467)

Yes, I agree. Priority and some context on what to do instead. Because as soon as it's a standard, big software vendors like Jetbrains could automatically categorize and mark the various lines.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by spockz on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:46AM (#27181632)

Back when I used Eclipse there was another level called “FIXME”. Maybe it works in IntelliJ as well.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by tirpen on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:38AM (#27182753)

It does.

At least it works in PyCharm, so most likely it works in all IntelliJ based IDEs.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by ExtraE on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:14PM (#27185130)

Yes, it does. In fact, you can configure it to use whatever you want. (I have it also match BUG as another priority)

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by kevingadd on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:51AM (#27181659)

Some projects use FIXME for things that need more urgent improvement to distinguish them from 'would be nice' TODOs. I wonder how many of these repos that is the case for?

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by Siira on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:03PM (#27186243)

I use a priority number after my tags: @todo2, @todo9, etc.

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