fyi: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/CodingStandards
;-) erik On 10/1/07, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:28:15PM -0400, Paul Spencer wrote: > > I am not a particularly fastidious coder but I do strongly believe > > that folks should be making their code readable and, as much as > > possible, avoid common sources of bugs. Also, for those folks > > looking to make contributions, it is going to be much easier for the > > core maintainers to bring your code into trunk if it already fits the > > coding style of OpenLayers. > > > > I am sure Chris will have more to say on this, but my particular pet > > peeves are: > > Erik will much more so than me :) > > Both of Paul's points are dead on, and some others: > > * Wrap lines at 80 characters. I'm less picky about this than > Erik, but he'll go through and clean up the code later if you don't > do it, and his commit statistics are inflated enough without giving > him more material ;) > * Comments when you're doing something confusing are helpful. > Don't write a novel, but also don't leave the next guy wondering what > was going on. (And as always, a key when commenting is "Not how, but > *why*.") I screwed this up with one change I made around r1400, and > we've been paying for it for 3000 commits. > > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
