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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

flux wrote:
> Ethan Grammatikidis (eekee57 AT fastmail.fm) wrote [08.07.22 20:23]:
> > personal, but personal differences are everything here. You, Eric, are
>
> Actually, that would be Seth, not Eric ;) (see below) However, I agree
> on this, at least to a point. I think that there is a problem here, in
> that people are battling over formatting, which is not good because that
> means they are spending time on presentation instead of spending time on
> actually getting things done. However, there is no one good way to solve
> the problem, because everyone likes different formatting, which is why
> we haven't had a standard on it so far IMHO. As I see it, the only
> agreeable standard is one where the formatting is kept as is for any
> files already present, but you are free to format new files as you
> please (within boundaries that we agree on). This way everyone can use
> the formatting they like on things they create, but we don't have one
> format in the darkness to rule them all... Of course, I wouldn't be
> opposed to section/spell maintainers requiring a certain formatting
> either.

Having voiced my opinion on tab/spacing preferences. I don't think we 
really need to mess with our "standard" as is. I think we should rule 
out making "frivolous" commits fixing "whitespace."

In other words, unless you're fixing a bug, enhancing a spell, or 
creating a new spell you shouldn't be committing stuff. I don't care if 
you "fix" whitespace while doing one of the above tasks, but don't go 
through and nit-pick other peoples code.

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David Kowis

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