At the bottom of the HowToContribute pages, there should be links to Eclipse and IntelliJ codestyle formatters.
On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Manuel Blechschmidt wrote: > Hi Paritosh, > >> Hi, >> >> How can I submit the patch in the format used by Mahout? I can't find >> anything on this on the "How to Contribute" Page. > > ... > But take care about the following points > > • All public classes and methods should have informative Javadoc > comments. http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/ > • Code should be formatted according to Sun's conventions > (http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/), with one exception: > • indent two spaces per level, not four. > • Contributions should pass existing unit tests. > • New unit tests (http://www.junit.org/) should be provided to > demonstrate bugs and fixes. > ... > https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/how-to-contribute.html > > On 31.10.2011, at 17:00, Paritosh Ranjan wrote: > >> >> I use eclipse as IDE and generally I format my code using a formatter.xml, >> but I don't find formatter.xml in Mahout. > > So you only have to set the formatting style go: Java Convention and use 2 > spaces instead of tabs. > >> >> Can someone help me? > > After doing this you can create a JIRA issue and attach the formatter.xml for > everybody else to use. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT > > > Further here is a patch checklist: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Patch+Check+List > >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Paritosh > > /Manuel -------------------------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com
