[SM-Discuss] spell formatting (was: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Vlad Glagolev (e021205d75782531e46de703d4fc7151c56beeb5))

Vlad Glagolev stealth at sourcemage.org
Sun Nov 9 04:08:56 EST 2008


OK, let's discussion started!

> The issue is quite obviously that different people
> have different notions of what is clean for shell code.

Yup, I understand it, but everything's changed (see below)

> and
> you not responding.

Look, I always respond. Not in ML, yes. But always. I don't receive the mails (I read them by
web-interface (archives), everyone here knows it). Personally I prefer IRC to quicker solve any
problem and ask for a question.

> What I definitely did not see is any pattern of people agreeing with you on
> formatting.

Again, it was only @IRC, but nvm then.

> We also have:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-commit/2008-July/017821.html

Yes, that was a problem. Noone poked me about it before. I reasked Jaka and he described the
problem about it. Starting that day I always quote the paths with "" (even if there was nothing
before -- so that's what is changed and will be changed, while improving the distro).

> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-commit/2008-July/018007.html
> which makes it quite senior developers don't want you making these changes
> in the spells they have historically maintained.

After that post there was a discussion about it @IRC. Where Elisamuel (and not the only one)
told about the jungles of spaces.

> I also checked SM-Discuss, but the only relevant thread I found is this:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/2008-July/018468.html
> which ends without anything like a final decision, though the consensus
> from the leads posting there is pretty clearly to leave things as they have
> been--without formal standards, and letting people work as they need to in
> the files they're creating or sections/spells they are taking over.

Yes.

> until you have
> done enough work in those spells or sections to be generally recognized
> (officially or unofficially) as the senior maintainer of those spells or
> sections.

That makes the things clear :)

> expect your commits to be
> revertered for you at the discretion of Leads and other senior developers
> who have better ways to spend their time than trying to review commits with
> excessive noise in them or redoing formatting in their own spells to what
> they prefer.

By now, there's only Juuso. He told me not to touch "ardour2" spell's formatting -- and I never
do this anymore.

-- 
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Cheerz,
Vlad "Stealth" Glagolev
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