change tabs to spaces [was: Re: [jira] Commented: (FOR-568) Clearer forrestbot documentation

[Tim Williams <wi...@gmail.com>]

> I then did a subsequent commit to convert tabs to spaces (please keep the same 
> whitespace treament as the file already has). I also wrapped long lines. This is important,
> otherwise future diffs are impossible to read when paragraphs are one long line.

I think this (convert tabs to spaces) needs to be added to an faq or
contribute section.  I'm sure I've goofed up several files before I
relatively recently changed my editor to automatically convert tabs to
whitespaces.
--tim

Re: change tabs to spaces [was: Re: [jira] Commented: (FOR-568) Clearer forrestbot documentation

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Tim Williams wrote:
> 
> I think this (convert tabs to spaces) needs to be added to an faq or
> contribute section.  I'm sure I've goofed up several files before I
> relatively recently changed my editor to automatically convert tabs to
> whitespaces.

It sure does. The trouble is that such info needs to be added to
the top-level www.apache.org so that we don't need to repeat it
at every project.

Meanwhile, there is such info at Cocoon:
http://cocoon.apache.org/community/committer.html

I have been meaning to start a HowTo "Develop with Forrest"
which would cover tips for debugging, etc. and also have
a section which shows how to contribute efficiently and
then links to such common info at www.apache.org/dev/

(Perhaps that is how i should spend some of the 30-hour trip
to ApacheCon next weekend. :-)

-David