Hi, Unfortunately I don't think consensus is possible with code formatting. Partly for that reason, we (Fx engineering leadership and others) have concluded that automatic, standardized code formatting is the right thing to do. We've already done this for a few languages and Python is up next.
Ricky et al are the designated experts here and they recommend the plan outlined up thread. They ran it by myself, Selena, EKR, and a few others in management and we asked them to proceed. If there are major showstoppers or something that wasn't taken into account, please do let them know now. Otherwise I'd ask us all to try our best to accept some of these things in the name of efficiency since we won't all agree on everything :) Thankfully we can likely automatically revert or re-format if we find issues -- once we get automatic formatting working. Thank you, Andrew On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:26 PM Jeff Gilbert <jgilb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Well we generally don't seek consensus anymore for these sorts of > things, it seems, but it's reassuring that I'm not alone. > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 1:17 AM James Graham <ja...@hoppipolla.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > On 19/10/2020 22:01, Jeff Gilbert wrote: > > > I'm disappointed by that. > > > > FWIW last time I looked at black, I found that the compromises it made > > to be fully automatic and with minimal configuration meant that it was > > liable to produce ugly or difficult to read code in some situations. > > > > I understand that we've decided that people will get used to reading any > > code style over time, and therefore eliminating formatting concerns from > > the code writing process is a net win for productivity. So I'm not > > taking a position in opposition to this proposal, but it is not > > something I would have advocated personally. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
