Hi Ryan,

Is there a bug open on this request (using tabs instead of spaces). Please
share when you can :-)

Best,
Alolita

Alolita Sharma
आलोलिता शर्मा
Director of Engineering
Internationalization & Localization
Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> <bjor...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > use tabs for indentation instead of spaces to be like the rest of
> > > mediawiki?
> > >
> >
> > I was going to say the same thing. Why wasn't that caught in code review?
> >
> > If these files continue to use spaces, I'd expect people will write
> patches
> > to en.json and qqq.json using tabs and then l10n-bot will change them to
> > spaces.
> >
>
> I would prefer that the JSON files use tabs instead of spaces even if it
> requires some post-processing as our coding conventions specify tabs for
> all code other than Python. I brought this up a couple weeks ago, but was
> just told that I should teach my IDE to use spaces for JSON files. Rather
> than having 100 developers waste time messing with their IDEs, many of
> which I imagine don't have such a preference, it seems like it would be
> more efficient to implement a post-processing script and keep the MediaWiki
> codebase consistent regarding indentation.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
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