"Kathey Marsden (JIRA)" <[email protected]> writes: > [ > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1363?page=comments#action_12425637 > ] > > Kathey Marsden commented on DERBY-1363: > --------------------------------------- > > Putting handling of existing code aside, I would like to propose we > adopt the client code format moving forward. My reasons have > nothing to do with love of that actual format but are as follows:
+1, anything to get rid of the current mess. Dag > > 1) We need a coding convention to be in compliance with the db > project guidlines. > 2) A large portion of the code is already in that format, Jeremy > made a pass after contribution. > 3) This issue has wasted huge amounts of time for the Derby > community and burnt virtually every new developer. > 4) The format if as Jeremy described should be fairly easy to > configure in most IDE's. > > Here is Jeremy's description of that format. > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Reformat-client-code--p9229.html > It needs to be researched and documented and perhaps items that are > already on the checklist like 80 characters per line added. > > Jeremy sure was right about the bikeshed discussion [1] and very > wise to just pull the band-aid off quick despite all the whining by > me and others. Please before you consider raising serious > objections to this consider all it has and will cost the project if > we don't come to consensus on this. > > If there are no objections, we can then take the next step to > document the format and next figure out how to get there for the > full code base, but if we can get past this step I think we will > have made great progress on this issue.
