Hi Kev,
You might want to take a look at the following wiki page, which tries to
summarize issues for new contributors:
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyContributorChecklist.
You'll notice that the community hasn't agreed on a single coding
standard, although that wiki page links to two models used by Derby
developers..
Thanks in advance for your contributions!
Regards,
-Rick
Kev Jackson wrote:
Hi all,
I've been looking at contributing to derby for a couple of weeks now,
mainly small code cleanups etc just to get my feet wet.
In the code I've noticed that the style is very different from what
I'm used to from open source Java (and indeed commercial Java).
if (condition)
expression;
instead of
if (condition) {
expression;
}
public class Whatever
{
}
instead of
public class Whatever {
}
Is there a resource that details the code style that should be
followed for patch submissions? I'm willing to contribute as I'd like
to learn a bit about how databases work under the hood, but I can't
stand the current code style and I'd like to know if this is an agreed
upon convention, or a legacy of the various owners of the codebase up
to now.
Thanks
Kev
