[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (MESOS-4231) Add a new category to cpplint to detect missing white-space in comments

["Gavin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gavin updated MESOS-4231:
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> Add a new category to cpplint to detect missing white-space in comments
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>                 Key: MESOS-4231
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-4231
>             Project: Mesos
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: build
>            Reporter: Avinash Sridharan
>            Assignee: Avinash Sridharan
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: mesosphere
>             Fix For: 0.27.0
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> Currently we haven't turned on any rule in cpplint.py to detect a missing leading whitespace in comments. Newbies tend to make this mistake even while trying to follow the style guide. 
> There is already a category in cpplint.py (whitespace/comments) to detect this, but it has the unfortunate side-affect of also tagging any trailing comments with less than 2 whitespaces between the code and the trailing comment as errors.  This side-affect generates a lot of false-positives since trailing comments in mesos codebase usually has only a single white-space. Hence proposing adding a new category called whitespace/mesos-comments that takes care of the more common case of tagging comments with leading whitespace as errors.   



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