>> The sources I have seen seems to use the sun conventions >(curly braces >> on the same line than the class, function, if, for...). >> >> I also seen in some classes the use of _ for the class fields. >> >> Is it a coding conventions that should be followed, or is it just a >> something used in some classes? > >I would strongly prefer that we get rid of the _ and stick to >the Sun one. >This is pretty common within the ASF and the standard by a wide margin. > >Notorious exception from the top of my head being Turbine, Maven and >Apache DS which have a very annoying layout to me which affects >readability for my stupid brain. > >Also the @author tag is now not used anymore across the asf code and >should be removed. > >Generally speaking where possible, quality of code and javadoc should >also be improved when you have the chance (ie: when you fix something, >etc) as it will serve the project and also help it graduate >since it is >something that will be looked at attentively afaik.
I added a path on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-483 containing Checkstyle instructions coming from Ant. The checkstyle-config must be adapted to Ivy's need. Jan
