If styling rules are one man's decision, better be acceptable and to a
degree flexible, or they will deter contributors from submitting work. Which
contradicts open source philosophy. Granted kannel is in better shape than
most other software, but there is always room for improvement.
BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Milan P. Stanic" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Patch: test/drive_smpp.c
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 00:58, Nikos Balkanas wrote:
I am very sorry. My apologies for the missunderstanding. My
impression is that identation means replacing tabs with spaces and
aligning left text according to level. I see here that you are
actually asking about source code reformatting and even for a code
change. Some of the styling options that you ask, especially that
"if" statement, are unreadable by several people, including me.
Well, not exactly unreadable, but very difficult to read. And that
is a problem in the case of the author who is called to support it.
Who decided on this style anyway?
In the free/open source software usually maintainers are those who set
the rules and style.
[ And usually (as is the case in kannel) these rules and style are far
better than in commercial software ]
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