Ted Husted wrote:
>
> Given the nature of the Commons, I don't think we have the
> luxury of defining our own conventions, and so fall back to
> the Jakarta defaults.
Why is that?
> The only reason there is a #23 is to append Jon's point about
> the tabs screwing up the CVS emails. If we decide not to care
> about that, we can strike #23 completely (and then just bitch
> at people if they start using tabs;-)
I agree completely with Jon about tabs, but I feel more strongly about not
having burdensome rules.
I view the Sun conventions as guidelines. Ones that I happen to largely
agree with, but I respect those that don't.
In some cases, code bases may be formed anew and "grow up" in commons. In
other cases, the code base will be seeded from other locations. I wouldn't
want a condition of contribution being that the code base has to be
reformatted first.
- Sam Ruby
