David E Jones wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> Your second email sounds more like code monitoring than ownership. Is that 
> more of what you had in mind?

Hm, yes, monitor might be a better term.

> As far as whether these constraints are considered a policy or an obligation 
> for other committers, I guess we'd have to vote on that. I don't think we 
> have anything setup (yet) to allow individuals to create obligations for 
> others. 

I wouldn't use a sledgehammer.  It would always be a training class,
whenever something changed that causes coverage to drop.  Eventually I
would hope others learn what I have tried to do here.

The reason someone writes code, is that they are trying to solve a
need.  Saying "Take this code and shove it" is wrong.  It is obviously
useful.  So, you have to work with what they have tried to do.

(ps: I am not saying you said anything like this, just talking in
generalities)

> As a labour saving device you might consider putting some information in 
> these files themselves so people have a chance to collaborate with you on 
> this, and you don't have to worry so much about watching it, especially a 
> year or two from now when this thread has faded from even our fondest dreams. 
> Useful information might include the coverage status, where the tests are, 
> how to run and test for coverage, etc (I think all of these would be 
> one-liners in the file).

The term you are looking for here is annotations.

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