Hi Chinthaka, all:
Do we wanna have explicit guidelines for coding ? Hmm, I don't think so. So far coding seems ok, at least for me. Why restrict people in open source :).
Because it makes life easier when everyone standardizes sometimes. You know, like SOAP and WSDL! :) If everyone is using different conventions for "needs work", then you can't rely on your IDE or a grep through the code to turn up places that might be valuable to work on.
Coding conventions are IMHO a good thing in a project.
BTW we are not into putting user names/author names in the code!
With things like TODO/FIXME, I think it's actually OK (though certainly not necessary) to put names in. The main reason not to put @author tags in class JavaDocs is that the whole file often gets worked on by multiple people and the concept of "owner" doesn't make sense after a while. With a TODO, it's generally a much smaller task limited to a particular area of the code and it can be nice to see who is the major stakeholder in this particular area without digging through commit logs.
--Glen
