On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > My experience on pip is that automated style review is helpful for > avoiding debates over subjective details.
This is the allure of Go's official linting tools. Nobody is happy with *all* the style choices but there isn't any room to fuss about it so people don't. Without that overhead, folks are more apt to lint their changes. (At least, that was my experience after several years working on projects written in Go.) One nice thing is that it frees you up to argue about other things. :) > But it does result in a > certain level of "tweak to satisfy the style checker" churn in PRs. > That can be frustrating when CI takes a long time to run. I had exactly that experience on one particularly large Go project (on GitHub, with slow CI, driven by bots). To make matters worse, the project had a dozen people actively working on it, meaning a high potential that your PR would not apply cleanly if you took too long to merge it. So, coupled with slow CI, linting failures were particularly onerous. We all got in the habit of locally running the linter frequently. IIRC, I even set up VIM to run the linter whenever I saved. FWIW, I'm fine with a bot that leaves a message (or a review) if there are linting issues. Regardless, we should careful about adding any extra overhead to our workflow, particularly since the move to GH has been driven by the desire to reduce overhead. -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
