Proposal: Marking "Work In Progress" explicitly

[Bart Cerneels]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 14:06, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> lately it has happened that in some cases people had accidentally
> removed code that others were working on, not with any evil intent,
> but just because of a misunderstanding. I think that's mostly just a
> matter of communication. Here's one simple idea for solving this:
>
> If we create classes/methods that are work in progress, how about
> marking them with a comment like this:
>
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> // THIS CLASS IS WORK IN PROGRESS. Please do not touch for now.
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> I think that this simple method might solve such issues easily and
> without much hassle.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> Mark Kretschmann
> Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at Collabora Ltd
> Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
> http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org - http://collabora.co.uk
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People who remove code that at first glance is abandoned should check
with the author or this list. If this does not happen it's a social
problem that needs fixed at the source.