[openstack-dev] #TODO management

Nachi Ueno nachi at nttmcl.com
Tue Mar 5 03:09:24 UTC 2013


Thanks! +1

2013/3/4 Dan Wendlandt <dan at nicira.com>:
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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 03/04/2013 12:03 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:55:25AM -0800, Dan Wendlandt wrote:
>> >> Yeah, I agree.  Too often TODOs are put there just to tell reviewers
>> >> that
>> >> you are doing something short-sighted, but that you recognize it.
>> >> Really
>> >> reviewers should be enforcing that there is a bug to track that item,
>> >> or
>> >> requiring it to just be done in the initial version.  There is also a
>> >> use
>> >> of a TODO which I would probably refer to as a "FUTURE" tag, which is
>> >> to
>> >> say: someday, we may plan on implementing X, and if we do that, the
>> >> change
>> >> would go here.  One could argue that those are useful comments to have
>> >> in
>> >> the code, but do not require bugs, as they do not actually represent
>> >> deficiencies that could currently be fixed.  Perhaps we should use
>> >> something other than TODO in that scenario.
>> >
>> > Personally I've always used  "XXXX" or "FIXME" to indicate gross hacks
>> > that
>> > should be fixed asap, and "TODO" for the random ideas that might be
>> > interesting
>> > to explore in the future. So if we want to track bugs, then perhaps we
>> > could
>> > use "FIXME bug 34242" for that purpose, and leave "TODO" for ad-hoc
>> > thoughts ?
>>
>> +1
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> I'm happy with that approach.
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> dan
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