On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:33:07PM +0100, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > Hey John, > > That would be my idea. > > Make it mandatory for new (maven) projects coming into the code base and > slowly start working on fixing the existing projects. The current checkstyle > setting is very relaxed, just a few basic checks. Stuff that we could > technically fix with a few well written regular expressions even. Over time > we can start implementing parts of our code style in the checkstyle config, > but that is long term planning. > > Cheers, > > Hugo
We've had people correct the whitespace issues in bulk previously, but then someone does a merge and it goes to hell again. I'd actually be +1 on a quick fix of the code, then the enforcement of the rules. That is... only for the things that can be easily regex-fixed. -chip
