From: "Phillip Bailey" <phbailey(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Martin Sivak" <msivak(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: &quot;engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&quot; <devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 1:54:23 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Best (and up-to-date) practices for developers? +1 for the idea if it doesn't already exist. It would ease development for those already working on the project, but it would also make it easier for others who would like to contribute to it, but aren't comfortable with navigating such a large code base. -Phillip Bailey On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Martin Sivak < msivak(a)redhat.com > wrote: Hi, I just wanted to find out if we have some documentation for the developers that would give hint on different aspects of the engine development in terms of coding. Like: - code style (we have the config in sources) - what libraries are (not) allowed (guava..ehm..) - how should CDI be used (see https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/63747/ ) - what files need to be touched to properly support translations - ... It would be cool to have something brief we can search easily. I know it can get outdated fast, but if we use it only for the important stuff and review it for each major release (as the major rules do not change much) we should be able to keep it usable. -- Martin Sivák SLA / oVirt _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

On 19 September 2016 at 15:18, Martin Betak <mbetak(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Yeah definitely +1. > > Even after being with the project for some time, I often wonder about > things > like in what order should fields in class be based on their function (as > in > logger, static sonstants, @Injected dependencies, actual instance > fields...) > so such document could answer questions like this (that are not encoded in > existing checkstyle rules) or provide general high-level guidance > throughout > the code base - at least for things that don't change that much. For > example > I believe that the process to invoke a command (or a query) from the > Backend > via the VdcActionType, CommandFactory .etc hasn't changed that much, > and probably won't change in the foreseeable future :-) > > Martin B. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Phillip Bailey" <phbailey(a)redhat.com&gt; > > To: "Martin Sivak" <msivak(a)redhat.com&gt; > > Cc: &quot;engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&quot; <devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; > > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 1:54:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Best (and up-to-date) practices for > developers? > > > > +1 for the idea if it doesn't already exist. It would ease development > for > > those already working on the project, but it would also make it easier > for > > others who would like to contribute to it, but aren't comfortable with > > navigating such a large code base. > > > > -Phillip Bailey > > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Martin Sivak < msivak(a)redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I just wanted to find out if we have some documentation for the > > developers that would give hint on different aspects of the engine > > development in terms of coding. > > > > Like: > > - code style (we have the config in sources) > > - what libraries are (not) allowed (guava..ehm..) > > - how should CDI be used (see https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/63747/ ) > > - what files need to be touched to properly support translations > > - ... > > > > > > It would be cool to have something brief we can search easily. I know > > it can get outdated fast, but if we use it only for the important > > stuff and review it for each major release (as the major rules do not > > change much) we should be able to keep it usable. > > > > -- > > Martin Sivák > > SLA / oVirt > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > I'm all for creating a series of files under our repo for that (and not under ovirt-site) Something like: ovirt-engine/ - ENGINE_OVERVIEW.adoc - INTERNAL_APIS.adoc - BEST_PRACTICES.adoc - CODING_GUIDES.adoc - REVIEW_GUIDES.adoc - Another option is to create a long DEVELOPER.adoc (harder to maintain) - Or put all those under ovirt-engine/developer/ * I remember there was an initiative for code-of-conduct. Is it alive?