[Engine-devel] Java code formatting

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 4:33:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Java code formatting
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 4:28:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Java code formatting
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 4:17:18 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Java code formatting
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> > > > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 4:07:53 PM
> > > > Subject: [Engine-devel] Java code formatting
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Recently I saw many patches with multiple code re-formatting.
> > > > When looking into it, we saw that many people didn't use the
> > > > project
> > > > policy, and now we have many files with bad formatting.
> > > > 
> > > > So I just posted a big ugly fix for this[1], and hopefully if
> > > > accepted
> > > > people should start using the right conventions and reduce the
> > > > amount
> > > > of non-relevant changes we see in the patches.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm aware of the fact that this may create some issues when
> > > > porting
> > > > patches, but better sooner than later.
> > > > Doron.
> > > > 
> > > > [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/10541/1
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > These automatic conversions are not better than current state,
> > > also
> > > I
> > > don't think that this is that important. If you want machine
> > > written
> > > code, then also provide commit hook to reformat anything, and
> > > probably machines to read it.
> > > 
> > > I, personally, think that this change over the sources I manage
> > > did
> > > not do any good.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Alon
> > 
> > Alon,
> > there's a formatting convention for the project set long ago.
> > If you feel it needs to be fixed, go ahead and suggest a fix for
> > the xml.
> > Otherwise we end up in the current chaos, where every 2nd or 3rd
> > patch carries unneeded changes.
> > 
> 
> What do you mean unneeded changes? how do you prevent this in future?
> 
> Alon

Unneeded changes is when you get one line of code fixed due to a bug,
and many others re-indented.
Best prevention is if people would make sure to use the same conventions.
We also have a checkstyle which monitors important issues such as trailing
white spaces, localization, etc.