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Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.comOn Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote: > Hi Jeffery, > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> Why not just fix it since this is a community effort? It takes longer >> to complain about it and reject it than it does to perform the actual >> work. (Sans the merge problem on Master). > > well, number one reason is 'because this is the culture'. All (at least > most) of the projects I have been involved in have a coding style. It > is the duty of every developer to follow that. If I want to get > something merged to wireshark, I have to use their coding style, not my > personal one, no matter if I like it or not. > > If an occasional mistake happens, then that is excusable. But if I > always post my patches without caring about the rules (including coding > style), then it measn that I am perceived as being ignorant towards the > project. > > Having a unified coding style is important for many software developers. > > Why am I not fixing it up? Because > * I might break the code doing so (and I might not have the same > test setup and familiarity with that paticular code / functionalty as > the original subitter) > * maintainers are typically overloaded in all projects. For efficient > collaborative development it is important that the work for the > maintainers is reduced, as they are single-point-of-failures. > * maintainers are developers. They primarily like to write code, and > like to be efficient/productive. 'wiping the floor' after other > developers/contributors who have been too lazy to care about the > rules of the project is tiresome, annoying, and generally not very > productive use of their time > > It is not only the content of your work that matters, but also the > style. Many people also consider it as disrespectful, if contributors > are not willing to align with a projects style / rules / architecture. > > As a maintainer [and I'm not saying that I have been maintaining openbsc > or related projects during the last year, I'm just generally speaking], I > want contributors to learn how to write patches that I can simply apply > without having to spend time on it except reading through the code. If > I always fix up everyones patches, I will do that for the years to come > and will not do anything else (more productive). Thanks Harald. I think there are a lot of good points here. If these things matter that much, why not use a commit hook that enforces policy by applying formatting without prejudice? With a commit hook, you don't waste your time or get frustrated with committers, and developers don't waste their time learning yet another set of standards and idiosyncrasies. The time could then be better spent on things like writing code or reviewing proposed functionality. Jeff