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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 harm
by mekkkkkk 5y ago
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.
- mnahkies 5y agoPerhaps 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
- esyir 5y agoAt that point, make an issue and add it to the tracker.
- schleiss 5y agoYes, 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.
- spockz 5y agoBack when I used Eclipse there was another level called “FIXME”. Maybe it works in IntelliJ as well.
- kevingadd 5y agoSome 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?
- Siira 5y agoI use a priority number after my tags: @todo2, @todo9, etc.