I updated the wiki because several people asked me to post my eclipse preference file which includes 180 column widths. There's also a follow up mail thread after I checked it in. The column width was not questioned. I can send out a separate proposal if needed but supposedly developers are already using it.
--Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:26 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [discuss] 80 char max length leads to illegiable source > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, at 08:53 AM, Alex Huang wrote: > > Donal, > > > > Our coding convention says 180. It was discussed about a week or two > > back. > > So, I am surprised that it's already been changed. I noticed the comment > when I was doing the weekly news - but it was buried in an email with the > subject "coding convention reminder" - which tells most readers "this email is > a reminder, there are no changes involved in this." There was no discussion > of the change, though there was discussion about the Eclipse templates, etc. > > In the future, might be good to break out proposals for changes in a separate > email. I suspect a few folks are going to be surprised by the change. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
