Yesterday, I released todocheck - a new kind of static code analyser for annotated TODOs.
Way too often, we let leftover TODOs slip into our main branch, which leaves your coworkers puzzles, looking at it a year from now.
They're thinking - what did I mean by "TODO: Move this to the users package"? What is the users package? It doesn't seem to exist anymore.
todocheck helps you fix this by forcing you to mark all your TODOs against an existing, open issue in your issue tracker.
That way, if you, at some point, close the issue, thinking you're done, the CI pipeline will sparkle in red as there is an open, unaddressed TODO in your main branch.
No longer can developers close a half-baked issue, rushing for the weekly sprint review to say "I'm done!".
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