Sorry, I meant that the eclipse formatter plugin is looking for maintainers. If it’s helpful I’ll try to describe the problem that we are facing.
The development team has a standard IDE, NetBeans, but everyone is free to use the tools that they are most comfortable. We have already established certain Java code formatting settings in NetBeans and shared that configuration using the project settings (nb-configuration.xml) checked into source control. However, if a developer is using another IDE or editor (e.g. eclipse, vim) to modify the Java files it is possible that they check-in files that don’t follow the standard format. Sometimes, this is caught in code review, but not everyone checks the indentation very carefully. It would be good if the continuous integration build would catch bad formatting. It would be great if there was a Maven command that they could run either before checking-in (ideal) or after the continuous integration build fails. Most Maven formatter plugins that I have seen have standardized on the eclipse java formatter settings and often bundle the eclipse formatter code itself to perform the formatting. It is quite a painstaking process trying to map NetBeans formatter settings to the eclipse formatter. We don’t want a NetBeans user using the standard setup to get tripped up by the formatter process since they are following the standard setup, which is meant to be streamlined. The easiest way to guarantee this is to have both the Maven formatter and NetBeans use the same formatter code and settings. Cheers, Chris > > No, it’s not abandoned. I’m sure there are many, me included, very interested > in developing it further, if you’ll help out by explaining what the problem > is. > > Gj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
