On 25/10/20 11:21 am, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > This is a nice idea as well. And I recommend to do this kind of research > looking at checkpatch and clang-format; both will not be the 'final tools' > but I think if you can identify a good mix and combination of those two > tools, we will get a good step forward of documenting the > commonalities and differences of coding styles in the different > subcommunities (the preferences of specific maintainers and subsystems). > > A last nice idea to consider: > > I would like to have an interactive checkpatch.pl mode where an authors > can say that they ran checkpatch.pl, seen the warning and errors > reported, but disagree and comment why they disagree. Then this kind of > information is added to the patch in a non-disturbing area of the patch > and we can pick up and aggregate that information from the patches to see > the complaints, false positives to address or suggestions which rules > should be disabled for some subcommunities. > > Aditya, your task is now to make those ideas more specific and write down > a one to two page project proposal for the mentorship. It can be to some > extent in bullet points as long as it is roughly understandable to all of > us what you plan and would like to do. > > With that proposal accepted, you have shown to be applicable to the > mentorship program here and we take care of the last organisational points > before the start. > > Lukas >
Alright Sir. I'll be sending my proposal in few days time, on the basis of my formulated ideas. Will let you know if I face any doubts during the procedure :) Thanks Aditya
