Looking at Kubernetes' 2k+ TODO Comments

patrickdevivo writes: This article looks at the 2k+ TODO comments in the Kubernetes source code. It finds that most TODOs are quite old (average age of 2+ years) and about a quarter of them have an assignee (so they're kind of like a ticket?). There are more stats and some summary data tables. The tool used to surface the information is called tickgit, and looks for "project management metadata" in a codebase. The data confirms what most developers intuitively understand — many TODO comments are forgotten and typically not addressed in a reasonable amount of time. This also appears to be the case in Kubernetes, just on a larger scale.