Hi all, I think we should adopt the same code conventions as other established apache projects: Lucene, Solr and Mahout all use the Sun official code conventions with the exception of using 2 spaces indents instead of 4.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html There is an eclipse code formatter (along with an unmaintained idea version) here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/How+To+Contribute#HowToContribute-HelpfulResources The whole wiki page HowToContribute on Mahout's wiki is worth a read too (many practical details on how to make and apply a patch for instance): https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/How+To+Contribute The same formatters from the Apache Lucene / Solr projects are available here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute?action=AttachFile Note you are off-course free to use another editor / IDE, I just mention this as a convenience for the majority of the developers that seam to use eclipse. Please vote with +1 / -1 in reply to this thread. If you are not a project committer please add "(unbinding)" next to your vote. If those conventions are accepted I would like to do a batch reformat of the existing stanbol codebase using this formatter next week. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel
