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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by polishdude20 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:44PM (#42954021)
This makes me think it would be really cool to tie code sections to slack conversations or emails. There's always commit messages yes, but most product decisions on why something was done lives in slack at least where I've worked.

Even an AI tool that takes a slack thread and summarizes how that thread informed the code would be cool to try.

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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by dhosek on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:10PM (#42954422)
I always fight to get this stuff into JIRA (or whatever equivalent tool we’re using), and then make sure that all commits have the JIRA ID in them.
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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by Izkata on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:48PM (#42956468)
Works great until you're not using it anymore. We're on our third system, all the cases from the first one and most from the second one are long since gone. Meanwhile the commit messages survive it all, even across cvs -> svn and svn -> git migrations.
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