Nicolaas,
  On the note of coding style, is there any effort in the community to create 
some kind of automatic source code formatter? I am currently playing around 
with an "experimental" language Go (http://golang.org). The standard tool set 
contains a program called "gofmt" that parses the source files and re-write 
them in the "canonical way". I'm not sure how much work it is though, and it 
might turn out to be an overkill.

Any thoughts?
Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolaas Matthijs" <[email protected]>
To: "OAE Production" <[email protected]>, "oae-dev 
[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:25:47 PM
Subject: [oae-dev] Code styling issues

Hi everyone,

At last week's UI dev call, we discussed doing a full sweep over the  
entire codebase, cleaning up all places that do not adhere to our  
style guide (spacing issues, double quotes instead of single quotes,  
CSS not expanded, etc.).

In the last weeks, various pull requests have been re-opened and  
slowed down because of the styling issues they had, and therefore we'd  
like to do one focussed pass and then continue with a commit hook and  
unit tests that checks for violations of the style guide.

However, before we go ahead, I wanted to check whether the  
institutions running Sakai OAE in production are fine with this, as  
there will be an increased likelihood of merge conflicts in areas  
where custom code is present. The potential merge conflicts should be  
fairly easy to resolve, but we still wanted to check first.

Any objections?

Thanks,
Nicolaas


-- 
Apisak "Michael" Darakananda
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"The bus station is where the bus stops. The train station is where the train 
stops. On my desk, I have a workstation."
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