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		tjoff on Dec 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many... In my eyes, yes. I'm quite thankful if the code I'm reading is honest and tells me about stuff not up to par with whoever wrote the code/reviewed it expected. With a TODO it can often be easy to figure out if the feature/bug I'm working on is affected by it. Potentially a huge time saver.

ShinTakuya on Dec 30, 2019 [–]

That's a fair point regarding visibility. I'll have to reconsider the pluses and minuses because before now I only really saw it as a "too lazy to make a ticket" thing.

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