+1 to longer line lengths and blanket reformatting. Personally, I see IDE
integration as a must for adoption of checkstyle.

-Kyle

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Matt Foley <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1, so do I.  Also like the idea of providing the necessary IntelliJ
> specification.
>
> On 2/21/17, 1:25 PM, "Otto Fowler" <ottobackwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     +1.  I agree with Michael’s points.
>
>     On February 21, 2017 at 16:23:21, Michael Miklavcic (
>     michael.miklav...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
>     +1 to a blanket reformat, failed build for improper formatting, and
>     automated formatting. I strongly prefer to remove "thinking" from my
> code
>     formatting and it has worked very well for me on large projects in the
>     past. There is capability now in IntelliJ to work with Checkstyle as
> well.
>     https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-61520#comment=27-1292600
>     https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea/plugin/1065-checkstyle-idea
>
>     A quick search didn't yield any obviously robust tools for automating
> the
>     formatting other than an older non-maintained project named Jalopy. I
> think
>     the checkstyle integration with IntelliJ and Eclipse should suffice
> since
>     the Maven plugin would give devs the ability to run checks locally and
> in
>     Github via Travis.
>
>
>     On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org>
> wrote:
>
>     > I would be in favor of a blanket, reformat. Whether that is for the
>     entire
>     > code base or one project at a time. Might be able to conquer and
> divide
>     > some of the heavy-lifting of testing, if we do a project at a time.
> But
>     > whichever way you think is easier. I'd be glad to help.
>     >
>     > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Justin Leet <justinjl...@gmail.com>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     > > I already tried a blanket, manual reformat the other day, through
>     > > IntelliJ. I did every file matching *.java in the project and it
> was
>     > > pretty quick. I didn't validate everything looked perfect
> afterwards,
>     > but I
>     > > did click into a few files and things looked fine. I'm not quite
> sure
>     > what
>     > > the lifecycle of our autogenerated stuff is, so we'd want to regen
>     > > afterwards, but it's a pretty trivial thing to do.
>     > >
>     > > I'm sure there's more nuance (and definitely more testing) than
> that,
>     but
>     > > off the top of my head I'm not sure what it would be. Either way, I
>     don't
>     > > think there's a huge amount of effort to just do the reformat, but
> we'd
>     > > still want to spin everything up and test it and so on. It's
> probably
>     > more
>     > > work for everybody to rebase onto the (vastly) reformatted code
> than
>     > > anything else, which will vary pretty significantly.
>     > >
>     > > For (slight) context, the changes are enough to eliminate ~5k
>     checkstyle
>     > > warnings (and there might be more if we have to tweak anything in
> the
>     > code
>     > > formatting).
>     > >
>     > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Casey Stella <ceste...@gmail.com
> >
>     > wrote:
>     > >
>     > > > Any idea, with those modifications to checkstyle, how much
> effort it
>     > will
>     > > > take to reformat the code to conform?
>     > > >
>     > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Justin Leet <
> justinjl...@gmail.com>
>     > > > wrote:
>     > > >
>     > > > > As part of:
>     > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-726
>     > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/459
>     > > > >
>     > > > > I integrated checkstyle into the mvn:site command, and have
>     > checkstyle
>     > > > > reports being run as part of the mvn:site reporting. I expect
> to be
>     > > > > celebrating hitting 25k checkstyle warnings soon.
>     > > > >
>     > > > > I tested out creating a code formatting setup in IntelliJ,
> with a
>     > > couple
>     > > > > slight modifications of the default Sun conventions (extended
> the
>     > > > character
>     > > > > limit of a line past 80 and made it two space indents). Given
> that
>     > > > > checkstyle includes it as a default option, it's probably
>     reasonably
>     > > > close
>     > > > > to the Sun conventions. I'm thinking we probably also at least
>     create
>     > > an
>     > > > > Eclipse profile, to open up ease of development.
>     > > > >
>     > > > > There's probably also a discussion about how exactly we want to
>     > enforce
>     > > > it.
>     > > > > Is it just something we add to the PR checklist and have
> reviewers
>     > > give a
>     > > > > glance, do we setup a hook to autoformat code, etc?
>     > > > >
>     > > > > Justin
>     > > > >
>     > > >
>     > >
>     >
>
>
>
>

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