Committer time is indeed scarce; nobody is suggesting forcing anyone to adhere to style. Objecting to others address this is another matter, and I must say I completely disagree with some thinking I'm hearing here. I give up on it though. All I particularly care about is the static-initializer thing, and people not complaining about me doing small code cleanup.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > If ever there were a case of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law_of_Triviality, this is it. > Committer time is a scarce resource. Unless it's automated, the code will > always drift out of format. I'd rather be able to cleanly apply a patch than > worry about a particular style being applied. We can apply the styling when > committing. > > -Grant > >
