On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:26, francis <franci...@email.de> wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 06:35 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>>
>> On 01/02/2012 03:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:44:49 +1000
>>> Nick Coghlan<ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> He keeps leaving them out, I occasionally tell him they should always
>>>> be included (most recently this came up when we gave conflicting
>>>> advice to a patch contributor).
>>>
>>> Oh, by the way, this is also why I avoid arguing too much about style
>>> in code reviews. There are two bad things which can happen:
>>>
>>> - your advice conflicts with advice given by another reviewer (perhaps
>>> on another issue)
>>> - the contributor feels drowned under tiresome requests for style
>>> fixes ("please indent continuation lines this way")
>>>
>>> Both are potentially demotivating. A contributor can have his/her own
>>> style if it doesn't adversely affect code quality.
>>
>> Exactly. Especially for reviews of patches from non-core people, we
>> should exercise a lot of restraint: as the committers, I think we can be
>> expected to bite the sour bullet and apply our uniform style (such as
>> it is).
>>
>> It is tiresome, if not downright disappointing, to get reviews that
>> are basically "nothing wrong, but please submit again with one more
>> empty line between the classes", and definitely not the way to
>> attract more contributors.
>>
> Hi to all member of this list,
> I'm not a Python-Dev (only some very small patches over core-mentorship
> list.
> Just my 2cents here).
>
> I would try to relax this conflicts with a script that does the reformatting
> itself. If
> that reformatting where part of the process itself do you thing that that
> would
> be an issue anymore?
I don't think this is a problem to the point that it needs to be fixed
via automation. The code I write is the code I build and test, so I'd
rather not have some script that goes in and modifies it to some
accepted format, then have to go through the build/test dance again.
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