On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > After seeing a bunch of code changes to enforce new hacking rules, I'd > like to propose dropping some of the rules we have. The overall patch > series is here - > > https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack-dev/hacking+branch:master+topic:be_less_silly,n,z > > H402 - 1 line doc strings should end in punctuation. The real statement > is this should be a summary sentence. A sentence is not just a set of > words that end in a period. Squirel fast bob. It's something deeper. > This rule thus isn't really semantically useful, especially when you are > talking about at 69 character maximum (79 - 4 space indent - 6 quote > characters). >
Thoughts on removing all pep257 (http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/) things from hacking? If projects would still like to enforce it there is a flake8 extension for pep257 itself. > > H803 - First line of a commit message must *not* end in a period. This > was mostly a response to an unreasonable core reviewer that was -1ing > people for not having periods. I think any core reviewer that -1s for > this either way should be thrown off the island, or at least made fun > of, a lot. Again, the clarity of a commit message is not made or lost by > the lack or existence of a period at the end of the first line. > ++ for removing this, in general the git based rules are funny to enforce. As you can run 'tox -epep8' before a commit and everything will pass, then you write your commit message and now it will fail. > > H305 - Enforcement of libraries fitting correctly into stdlib, 3rdparty, > our tree. This biggest issue here is it's built in a world where there > was only 1 viable python version, 2.7. Python's stdlib is actually > pretty dynamic and grows over time. As we embrace more python 3, and as > distros start to make python3 be front and center, what does this even > mean? The current enforcement can't pass on both python2 and python3 at > the same time in many cases because of that. > ++ Oh Python 2 vs. 3 For this one I think we should leave the rule in HACKING.rst but explicitly document it as a recommendation, and that python2 vs python3 makes this unenforceable. > > We have to remember we're all humans, and it's ok to have grey space. > Like in 305, you *should* group the libraries if you can, but stuff like > that should be labeled as 'nit' in the review, and only ask the author > to respin it if there are other more serious issues to be handled. > > Let's optimize a little more for fun, and stop throwing -1s for silly > things. :) > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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