Re: What do we need to establish?

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> On 07/05/2008, at 4:50 PM, Maria Odea Ching wrote:
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>>> 1. Rules/Conventions/Guides
>>> - When applying patches
>>> - Commit message template
>
> These are probably related. I think our current habits are good, but
> maybe they need to be written down :)
>
> I also started adding contributors to the parent POM - I hope that's
> something we can continue.
>
>>>
>>> - Codestyles
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> Something in me wants to say "use the Eclipse default so the patches
> are always right" :)
>
> Honestly, I don't care about this any more, as long as it is
> consistent, can be checked in checkstyle, can be formatted in Eclipse,
> IDEA and NetBeans.
>
> The things I do care about:
> - spaces, not tabs
> - 4 spaces for Java
> - 2 spaces for XML
> - 120 column wrap, not 80.
> - wrap on spaces, not on '.' in a method call
>
> :)
>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. Voting Process
>>>
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> I think we pretty much follow the Apache guidelines here, so we can
> stick to that. May be worth documenting some things specifically though.
>
> So, who wants to start a "how we do things" page on the site that we
> can grow over time? :)