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Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by 2trill2spill » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #12

newhouseb wrote: post #4

We used something like this on the teams I lead at Dropbox to (what I felt) was great effect. We had a script that would regularly run and sync with Phabricator, our bug tracking tool of choice. One thing that we did differently, however, was to "assign" TODOs based on project or team rather than individual people. This way we could triage issues more flexibly to people according to their workloads and also build in…

> One thing that we did differently, however, was to "assign" TODOs based on project or team rather than individual people. If this works for your team, that’s awesome, but beware, I think you’d need a very disciplined team with good communication for this to work. I’ve found on some teams, if a task is not assigned to a single individual, nobody feels “on the hook” to do it. Things assigned to a group can tend to pi…

What? Your team doesn't pick up unassigned tasks when they are done with their work? What's the alternative? When I'm done with a story I look in the backlog which is roughly ordered by priority and find a story that's in an area I know and start working on it.

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by aviaviavi » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:29 PM UTC

messe wrote: post #30

Neat idea! I might throw something like this together for myself in awk for command line use.

Just an fyi, toodles has a CLI command if you pass the `no_server` flag, might save you some coding.

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by mmgutz » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 10:27 PM UTC

ckluis wrote: post #2

It would be handy if github, gitlab, vs baked this kind of solution directly into their tooling to help expose todos in open source software

[ticgit](https://github.com/schacon/ticgit) might be a better kind of solution

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by vim-guru » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 10:35 PM UTC

I made the very same thing years ago. I remember ending up removing the web-interface and use the CLI and vim-wrapper instead. I still think the syntax of the comments etc was pretty good http://hkjels.github.io/ntask/

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by faizshah » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 11:06 PM UTC

There's a pretty nice implementation of this sort of idea in atom (I only played with it tho): https://imdone.io/

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by alanbernstein » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 11:56 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #7

Off topic, I'm looking for a solution to embed SVG diagrams directly in my code as comments, with the ability to edit them as in inkscape.

This sounds ambitious, but I imagine emacs can do it. Is that a feasible approach for you?

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by camtarn » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 1:09 AM UTC

tln wrote: post #14

Looks interesting! I'm looking forward to trying it. The annotation syntax looks powerful but do people really edit thier code to adjust priorities and assignees? On a related note, I review `TODO` in PRs and consider whether to allow them in the codebase; and `DEBUG` to indicate code that shouldn't even be checked in. Does anyone else have a codetag for this? DEBUG doesn't seem to be a well-known codetag, and I'd pr…

We used FIXME to denote temporary changes that shouldn't be checked in, or sections which hadn't been written yet, and had a Git hook which stopped code being committed with that tag. (It also looked for 'console.log' and 'debugger' statements in our JS and blocked those, too.)

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by hkai » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 1:13 AM UTC

TODO FIXME write an insightful comment here

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by LeonB » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

This is great. Aaaaand here’s a Microsoft patent covering it: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,748...

Re: Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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Post by jeremycw » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 2:34 AM UTC

LeonB wrote: post #39

This is great. Aaaaand here’s a Microsoft patent covering it: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,748...

Seems like it only covers live updates to tasks during "interactive coding sessions". So I don't think it would apply to offline source processing.