Hi folks! The consensus seems pretty strongly in favor of increasing the line length limit. Do folks still want to see a formal VOTE thread?
> On May 19, 2021, at 4:22 PM, Sean Busbey <sbus...@apple.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hello! > > What do folks think about changing our line length guidelines to allow for > 100 character width? > > Currently, we tell folks to follow the sun style guide with some exception > unrelated to line length. That guide says width of 80 is the standard and our > current check style rules act as enforcement. > > Looking at the current trunk codebase our nightly build shows a total of ~15k > line length violations; it’s about 18% of identified checkstyle issues. > > The vast majority of those line length violations are <= 100 characters long. > 100 characters happens to be the length for the Google Java Style Guide, > another commonly adopted style guide for java projects, so I suspect these > longer lines leaking past the checkstyle precommit warning might be a > reflection of committers working across multiple java codebases. > > I don’t feel strongly about lines being longer, but I would like to move > towards more consistent style enforcement as a project. Updating our project > guidance to allow for 100 character lines would reduce the likelihood that > folks bringing in new contributions need a precommit test cycle to get the > formatting correct. > > Does anyone feel strongly about keeping the line length limit at 80 > characters? > > Does anyone feel strongly about contributions coming in that clear up line > length violations? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org
