Hi,

This is not something that should have been brought up on the PMC list - it 
should be discussed on general.

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:28, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
> Conventions are a matter of taste and habit.

Some are and some are designed to force programmers to implement things in 
particular ways and indirectly force good programming habits.

> Each subproject can
> indeed adopt and publish a convention of its own. However, most
> projects with the exception of Turbine and Velocity did not publish
> conventions. (Please correct me if I am wrong.)

Avalon has one ... based on an earlier version of Turbines.

> I am not suggesting that we jettison the code and fire the committers,
> that would be pointy-haired.

no but you are suggesting that the people who actually do the work no longer 
get to have a say in how they write code. Thats not pointy-haired at all!

As soon as I see my first jakarta paycheck I will happily change over.

If it was a legitimate concern then maybe we could do something about 
it. About the only thing I can think of that we would want to change is 
when people use conventions like

a_class_name anObject = ...;
anObject.do_something();

And that is mainly due to the fact that it effects people outside the project 
aswell. 

However I don't think any of the jakarta projects use those conventions and I 
am not going to be the one to force anyone to change if they do.

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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