Agreed - there needs to be a space for known issues that are not worth tracking. Issues that need to be understood as real, but perhaps may never be viable to fix. Something you can ctrl-F for when you have time and are curious if there's something you can clean up.
It drives me insane that so many tools/processes treat TODOs as essentially code smells.
I still have to come across one of those issues. It may not be a priority, but it is a broken window (Pragmatic Programmer book). If it’s a won’t fix type of issue, just add it to the software docs.
It drives me insane that so many tools/processes treat TODOs as essentially code smells.