I'm increasingly hearing that many contributors who want to contribute to Mesos find that it's often difficult to do so. One of the big issues is due to our formatting rules which is not automated. As a result, we've had many reviews that are overwhelming in style comments with only a couple of comments on functionality.
This is very frustrating for contributors, and is also a large burden on the committers to remember, review and explain the formatting sections of the style guide. I introduced *ClangFormat* a long time ago as our formatting tool, but it was only a supplementary tool since it didn't yet conform fully to the style guide. We've done a lot of work to narrow this gap and the gap is actually quite small at this point. However, the existence of such a gap is enough to stir discussions and render the tool useless for some people. I think we should close this gap by adopting ClangFormat as our formatting guideline. I don't have a fully fleshed out plan just yet. I'd like to push for this effort again, as I find it to be very important. I'm just seeking for +1s if you'd like to see a fleshed out plan for this. Thanks, MPark
