Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems
I wish there was a way to leave a comment like<p><pre><code>    &#x2F;&#x2F; todo(gravypod, techdebt): some description of the issue
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and have that, when pushed up to a VCS, turn into an issue created, assigned to me, and labeled with tech debt. I know this exists in some of the walled gardens like Google&#x27;s internal infrastructure but I think if this existed in the open world you&#x27;d see a lot more consistency between issues&#x2F;comments and you&#x27;d enable more continual cleanup.<p>My guess is, in some less healthy organizations, tech debt comments get cleaned up more frequently than tech debt issues. Issues probably don&#x27;t get assigned (a practice I have experienced at many companies) but comments are &quot;right there&quot; and can be rolled into other tickets in an attempt to always leave it cleaner than you&#x27;ve found it.