I thought Rick was asking about Apache/Derby specific guidelines and/or policies. Anyway, Rick, you have seen Dan's posting. Copyright headers being a requirement for ASL, I will have to wait for another patch... Sorry!
Satheesh David W. Van Couvering wrote: > I can't find the email, but I could have sworn when I first started > that I was referred to the Java coding guidelines at > > http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html > > If we agree this is as good as any other standard, it would be good to > adopt it as our own coding guideline and publish this somewhere... > > I do know one key standard: four-space tabs. We seem to be fairly > inconsistent about everything else, although that said most of the > code is fairly readable. > > David > > Rick Hillegas wrote: > >> Hm, let me try this again. >> >> Where would a new contributor go to find Derby/Apache coding >> guidelines such as our policies around copyright statements and >> @author tags? I would expect to find a link to these policies under >> the "Contribute Code or Documentation" section of the Community tab. >> But I don't see anything relevant there. >> >> Thanks, >> -Rick >
