On 2009-12-01, at 21:43, Peter Kasting wrote: > I'd like formal clarification about how we enforce our style guide. > > On https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31806#c5 , Yong Li was notified > that one of his patches violates a WebKit style rule (no {} on one-line > conditional bodies). He objected to the rule, and George Staikos commented > that the style guide rules were "guidelines and not hard rules". > > I'm not interested in having debates on individual bugs when people don't > like particular style guide rules. I don't happen to like this rule either, > but my impression is that we simply do not accept willful style guide > violations. Can someone with more standing in the project than me confirm or > deny that?
If individual contributors could pick and choose which rules they applied based on their personal preference there would be little point in having the project-wide guidelines. They exist so that personal preference doesn't need to be considered from patch to patch, only when adopting new style guidelines for areas not previously covered. - Mark
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