Permissions and notifications for construct-modification tags

Abstract

Construct-modification tags conveying development-phase compiler requests are introduced into source code to facilitate communication between developers, identify areas that need developer attention, send directives to a compiler, and other development features in an integrated development environment, during the software development phase. A hierarchy of developers and associated permissions is maintained. A tag may be associated with one or more developers as well as one or more permissions. Notifications associated with tags may be issued to one or more developers in response to a conveyed compiler request. General messages to all the developers and personalized messages to one or more developers indicate the presence of tags and need to resolve issues before the software development process enters the production phase.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.