Thanks Joan :) I had fun answering the questions in the poll! However, it feels like a very serious personality test, and now I've got that uneasy feeling of having revealed things about myself that I should have better kept a secret…
On 03/28/2014 10:11 PM, Joan Touzet wrote: > Time for everyone's favourite topic: whitespace standards. > > I know many of you are fed up with not being able to auto format in > your favourite editor and match the CouchDB Erlang coding standards, or > receiving pull requests that are formatted poorly. > > I'd like to fix that with an appropriate whitespace standard, and > supplementary plugins for vi and emacs that will just Do The Right Thing > and let us all stop worrying about whitespace corrections in pull > requests. > > The basic rules seem to be: > > * Indent everything 4 spaces (not 2 or 8, and no tabs) > * Single blank lines between functions > * No blank lines between guarded versions of the > same function (e.g. couch_btree.erl#L36-L47) > > but beyond that there is some inconsistency in both the code and in > discussion with other devs. > > Here's a short poll I threw together in Google Docs. I'd love it if you > could take 5 minutes to reply to it. Early next week I'll summarize and > post the results. Once we have agreement we can toss up a super small > Markdown guide / wiki page / whatever and get started on the emacs/vi > modifications to support it. > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b7KcQGgNbSCZVRwLjrUl5Z6C2TBx8X1btlU5fwrNHpg/edit# > > Thanks, > Joan >
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