Coding standards: Related bug workarounds
Matej Urbas
matej.urbas at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 07:12:26 PDT 2010
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 20:42 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:14 +0000, Matej Urbas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hope you don't mind me asking something like this here, but is there a
> > coding guideline for referencing bugs in related projects for which we
> > have to do a 'temporary' workaround in our project?
> >
> > Here is a description of what I mean -- using a (hypothetical) example:
> >
> > int a = getSomeNumber();
> > // WA: We have to do something crazy because of a bug in some other
> > // project:
> > // [WABUG:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527510]
> > while (a < 10) {
> > a = getSomeOtherNumber();
> > }
> >
> > Thus, the format of the so-called 'Workaround Bug' would be:
> >
> > [WABUG:<uri>]
> >
> > Checking for fixed/referenced WABUGs could be automated easily and
> > everyone would be happy.
> >
> > Do we have anything like that?
> >
> Not to my knowledge. I checked the GNU coding standards but could not
> find anything.
Thanks for checking. I have sent a proposal for this to
bug-standards at gnu.org.
Cheers,
---
Matej
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