Re: Coding Conventions?

[Richard Feit <ri...@bea.com>]

+1 on waiting...
As to the general issue, I've been in favor of "respect the environment" 
in the past, but I could be convinced to go with a standard.  We should 
revisit this after ApacheCon (and once we're solidly past the alpha 
release).

Rich

Ken Tam wrote:

>+1 on not reformatting code prior to ApacheCon.
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>Given the amount of code already written and its state, I favour a
>"respect the environment" coding convention -- there's de facto
>conventions in various parts of the codebase, and devs should follow the
>conventions of the area they're contributing in.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Merz [mailto:michael.merz@gmail.com] 
>>Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:22 AM
>>To: beehive-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>Cc: davanum@gmail.com; dolander@gmail.com
>>Subject: Re: Coding Conventions?
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>>+1
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>>I agree with Daryl, we've used the same philosophy for WSM so far.
>>Since the adoption of coding conventions at this point would 
>>complicate history diffs (and therefore merges, too), I, too, 
>>would like to suggest to postpone this until after ApacheCon. 
>>Let's talk about this after (or during) ApacheCon. Sound good?
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>>Cheers,
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>>-michael
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>>Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:21:04 -0700
>>From: Daryl Olander <do...@gmail.com>
>>Subject: Coding Conventions?
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>>NetUI hasn't decided that it wants a coding convention. We've 
>>never had one.  One person's "looks nice" is another persons "sucks".
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>>I suggest we don't do this until after Apachecon because if 
>>we do it now it will significantly increase the difficulty of 
>>merging changes from one branch to the other.
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>>On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:45:42 -0500, Davanum Srinivas 
>><da...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Michael,
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>>>Since diff's are going to be problematic AND we want the 
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>>code to look 
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>>>nice and consistent for ApacheCon....Shall i do it ASAP? If 
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>>we do this 
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>>>once early in the project it's easier in the future (when 
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>>folks really 
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>>>need to look at diff's carefully)
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>>>-- dims
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>>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:01:07 -0700, Michael Merz 
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>><mi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Hi Dims,
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>>>>Thanks much for all the Axis-specific and non-Axis-specifc work 
>>>>you've put into the WSM project! It's much appreciated! :)
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>>>>So far, we've not adopted Sun's coding conventions (I 
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>>assume you're 
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>>http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/CodeConventions.pdf).
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>>>>While I would generally not have a problem with reformatting the 
>>>>code, I would suggest to do this consistently for the entire 
>>>>Beehive-project (if controls and netUI haven't already 
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>>done so). I 
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>>>>would anticipate the major downside to be potential problems with 
>>>>diff'ing the history of files.
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>>>>Cheers,
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>>>>-michael
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>>>>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:20:54 -0400
>>>>From: Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com>
>>>>Subject: Coding Conventions?
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>>>>Are there any specific coding conventions to follow? would folks 
>>>>mind if i reformat (specifically the WSM module) to SUN coding 
>>>>specifications?
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>>>>thanks,
>>>>dims
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>>>>Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
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>>>Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
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