On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >> Grepping through Python's sources tells me that we have over 2,000 >> "XXX" comments. The thing that irks me about them is that the have a >> very slow rate of being resolved, since they usually act more as >> "notes to self" rather than easily attainable tasks. >> >> So, I propose that we adopt a policy similar to Twisted's: All "XXX" >> comments must have an issue in the tracker and an accompanying link >> with the source code. That way we'll have a forum for discussing the >> changes and deciding whether they are reasonable enough to >> implemented. > > We have a very similar policy here at work. Sadly I don't think it does > much on actually resolving the issues. XXX bugs tend to be pretty minor in > the scheme of things and they're almost always lower on the priority list > than everything else. > > That being said, we recognize that XXX bugs incur "technical debt" and > reducing that debt is something we're devoting Real Time to doing. > > I see that Guido is not keen on the idea, and I'm not sure my observations > help sway things one way or the other. OTOH, it would be nice if at least > we always add our own identifier (initials, nick, email address) and a date > to the XXX so we at least know who was talking about what.
At Google we use TODO(<username>): Blah, blah. I don't think ading a date would help much but I wouldn't be opposed to this. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
