I think this would be very helpful. We could even describe how to update these settings for a few editors/IDEs.
My vote is for 4 spaces in place of tabs and no wildcard imports. I haven't seen anything describing import preferences. Tyler On Jul 14, 2014 12:12 PM, "Nick Burch" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Recently when reviewing some patches from new contributors, we've had some > confusion over spaces and tabs. For TIKA-1361, I've hit another one - > explicit imports vs package wide wildcard ones. > > Currently, we don't seem to have anything listed on the Contributors page > to tell people what we expect - http://tika.apache.org/contribute.html - > so they can't check. I'm happy to add something there, just need to know > what we've already decided so I know what to list! > > For the spaces / tabs one, I've found TIKA-44 which concludes that we > should be using 4 spaces. Anything similar out there for imports? > > Thanks > Nick >
