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On 16.08.2017 02:59, Emilien Macchi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Alex Schultz <aschultz at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm proposing that in order to track tech debt that we're adding in as
>> part of development that we create a way to track these items and not
>> approve them without a bug (and a reference to said bug)[0].  Please
>> take a moment to review the proposed policy and comment. I would like
>> to start this for the queens cycle.
> 
> I also think we should frequently review the status of these bugs.
> Maybe unofficially from time to time and officially during milestone-3
> of each cycle.
> 
> I like the proposal so far, thanks.
> 

FWIW, for another (in-house) project, I create a page called "technical
debt" in the normal docs directory of the project. That way, I can add
the "reminder" with the same commit which introduced the technical debt
in the code. Similar to what OpenStack already does with the
release-notes. The list of technical debt items is then always visible
in the docs and not a query in the bug-tracker with tags (or something
like that).
Just an idea, maybe it applicable here.

-- 
Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)

>> A real world example of where this would beneficial would be the
>> workaround we had for buggy ssh[1]. This patch was merged 6 months ago
>> to work around an issue in ssh that was recently fixed. However we
>> would most likely never have remembered to revert this. It was only
>> because someone[2] spotted it and mentioned it that it is being
>> reverted now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Alex
>>
>> [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/494044/
>> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/6e8e27488da31b3b282fe1ce5e07939b3fa11b2f,n,z
>> [2] Thanks pabelanger
>>
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