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Production lint category

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Description

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This lint category collects all production code related lints, currently only including todo, unimplemented, dbg_macro, print_stdout and use_debug. This allows people to easily check whether they should release their code without having to remember the names of multiple lints and have to add and remove them, and allows Clippy to add more similar lints and have them be automatically enabled for all Rust production builds. Having these lints being in the restriction category doesn't really make sense because they are very useful for all Rust projects, just not all the time.

Drawbacks

It is a whole new lint category for just a couple lints.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Review how Clippy currently groups the todo, unimplemented, dbg_macro, print_stdout, and use_debug lints, then determine the design for a production lint category. Done means the category is defined for these lints and future similar lints can be enabled through it for production builds.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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