TODO and FIXME comments in the code tend to sit there and not get fixed. Much better that rather than such comments we have a reference to an issue that explains the problem properly.

An issue provides greater visibility thus maximising the chance the problem will be resolved.

Since we already screen for such comments in manual code review, why not automate it?

The plan is to fail a PR if it contains such a comment iff there is no associated issue URL with it.

Like other similar CI checks, this will be added to https://github.com/kata-containers/tests/blob/master/.ci/static-checks.sh and will only fail the CI run if the user modifies a file containing such a comment. If the CI is run on master, any such comments will cause a failure.