vieiro commented on PR #4080:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/4080#issuecomment-1121957029

   > I think @vieiro tried to make the point, that this PR is to much noise for 
to little gain. Cosmetic changes by us nothing, but take time to review and see 
where breaks might have been introduced. PRs should fix problems, not cosmetics.
   
   Exactly. Cosmetic changes add noise for little gain *and* introduce some 
risk in the implementation. NetBeans has >500k lines of code, and we use 
`import static`sparingly. Same applies for using the `this.` prefix, we use 
this sparingly in those other >500k files.
   
   If you feel an urge to use `import static` for logging levels then it's 
better to have a single PR do this in 500k files than having 500k PRs changing 
each file. 
   
   Also modifying the implementation (of classes that are very sensitive to 
changes, since this module is probably used by everybody) and the tests at the 
same time is weird/risky. It's more difficult to know if the new code coming 
from somebody we don't know (or, as you say, _"knows too little"_) behaves the 
same as before. Until you gain experience I'd prefer PRs with tests only and 
PRs with code changes.


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