Thanx Viraj for initiating, Makes sense to me to include a formmater inline 
with our checkstyle rules in the code, would make life simpler for all devs.

-Ayush

> On 12-Sep-2021, at 12:28 AM, Viraj Jasani <vjas...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> + common-dev@hadoop.apache.org
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Viraj Jasani <vjas...@apache.org>
> Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 6:18 PM
> Subject: Checkin Hadoop code formatter
> To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org <d...@hadoop.apache.org>
> 
> 
> It seems some recent new devs are not familiar with the common code
> formatter that we use for our codebase.
> While we already have Wiki page [1] for new contributors and it mentions:
> "Code must be formatted according to Sun's conventions
> <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/codeconvtoc-136057.html>"
> but this Oracle's code conventions page is not being actively maintained
> (no update has been received after 1999) and hence, I believe we should
> check-in and maintain code formatter xmls for supported IDEs in our
> codebase only (under dev-support) for all devs to be able to import it in
> the respective IDE.
> Keeping this in mind, I have created this PR 3387
> <https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/3387>. If you could please take a
> look and if the PR receives sufficient +1s, we might want to update our
> Wiki page to directly refer to our own codebase for code formatters that we
> maintain. Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 1.
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/How+To+Contribute#HowToContribute-MakingChanges

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