Proposal: Marking "Work In Progress" explicitly

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:06 AM, 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.

I just worry about these comments staying there forever.

Just check the git log to see if a file is being messed with at the moment.

Ian