Hi Jan, I'm don't mean to be snarky here but please look at the comments below.
Cheers, Ian Hulin On 09/08/12 11:21, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > >> ** Motivation >> >> New contributors sometimes struggle to follow our indentation and >> code style > > Yes, that's bad. Do we explain that we're a GNU project and as > such use GNU coding style? Together with a pointer to the info > node *(standards)Formatting, that could help. > >> – this is especially difficult when parts of our >> existing source code doesn’t have a consistent style. > > Yes, and even more so if we don't explain what the style is? > > What could help, though, is to just accept small patches that have > formatting problems, run C-x h C-M-\ , tell them thank you and show > them the reformatted diff from C-x v = ? > I think you missed/overlooked this in Graham's original post: "Emacs is not an answer; nobody wants to install 50 megabytes just to format scheme code. Especially when a standalone tool could do the job in probably less than 10 Kb." What you suggest above is written from a point of view within the Emacs bubble. Who is the "we" who would do this, given that the project is already short of developers? > This is where Rietveld, git-cl, policy and possibly the benevolent > dictator comes in? > Salve dictator, Republicae salvator (!?!?) (Hail, dictator saviour of the republic) > Greetings, > Jan > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
