On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
That seems excessively draconian. Even at Google we don't have a rule like that, and we're sure big on process and interlinked tools. If you want to, you could add a different magic keyword, but personally, I don't see XXX comments necessarily as "to be resolved" -- merely as flags for someone perusing the code looking to change it or digging for the cause of some problem to pay special attention. -- --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