Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
I changed the subject for this general discussions, more comments below.
Marcel Offermans wrote:
If you don't mind, I do have a comment about this quick vote.
Sure, I don't mind :) - quiet the opposite :)
Let me
start by stating that I think that coding standards are important. In
fact, I was one of the people who pushed for them and came up with the
draft for the first version of the document.
However, I think the real discussion we should have is about formatting
source code. Do we want to somehow make sure all code is formatted
exactly the same? Does this mean we need to standardize on a single IDE
or a separate formatting tool?
I would like to propose the integration of maven-checkstyle-plugin in
order main POM so that we can keep an eye on non-complaint sources.
Furthermore, we can store the checkstyle and formatter configuration in
our SVN repository, as many projects do. Also by exploiting a common
public location (the SVN repository in this case) containing a set of
configuration file (both for checksyle and code formatting) we can
auto-configure IDEs by an ad-hoc tuned POM.
What do you think?
