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Re:On Comments in Code by Normal_gaussian on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:54PM (#27522014)
Absolutely. I worked a codebase that was littered with ticket numbers for a few years; many members of the team religiously added them but never read them. How do we know? Self hosted issue system and access logs. New starts would read a couple and that was it.

A ticket is a really opaque way of showing something. If you click the issue you're now going through several tangentially related comments and a few MR back and forths just to work out if its even useful to you. People will stop bothering to even open the link unless they are really stuck.

Whack a summary comment and then by all means include the link, but the comment is what most people will use.

Re:On Comments in Code by bostonsre on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:34PM (#27522458)
I wonder if there are jira integrations that would bring ticket info into the ide. Although, I hate jira and would definitely prefer good git commits.
Re:On Comments in Code by austinsharp on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:42PM (#27523061)
IntelliJ lets you expand links from patterns, so if in our codebase there's a BUGREPORT-12345 link, it's blue and clickable and goes to jira.