On 9/30/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Further, I see some interesting possibilities for automation if such a library exists. For example, a cron job that scans the checked in sources, and automatically converts new TODO's to RFE's in the project tracker, and adds a tracker cross-link into the source code comment. The job could similarly create bug reports for FIXME's. If the project tracker was one that supported URL links, and the project had a URL view of the source tree, then the cross-links between the code tag and the tracker could be actual URL references to each other.
With all respect for the OP, that's exactly the kind of enthusiastic over-engineering that I'm afraid the PEP will encourage. I seriously doubt that any of that work will contribute towards a project's success (compared to simply having a convention of putting XXX in the code). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)