Re: Fwd: Clang-format: Update

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:28:21PM +0530, Amar Tumballi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 04:52:24PM +0530, Nigel Babu wrote:
> > > Hello folks,
> > >
> > > A while ago we talked about using clang-format for our codebase[1]. We
> > > started doing several pieces of this work asynchronously. Here's an
> > update
> > > on the current state of affairs:
> > >
> > > * Team agrees on a style and a config file representing the style.
> > > This has been happening asynchronously on Github[2]. Amar, Xavi, and Jeff
> > > -- Can we close out this discussion and have a config file in 2 weeks? If
> > > anyone feels strongly about coding style, please participate in the
> > > discussion now.
> > >
> > > * Commit the coding style guide to codebase and make changes in rfc.sh to
> > > use it.
> > > Waiting on 1. I can do this once we have the discussion finalized.
> > >
> > > * gluster-ant commits a single large patch for whole codebase with a
> > > standard clang-format style.
> > > This is waiting on the first two steps and should be trivial to
> > accomplish.
> > > I have access to the gluster-ant account and I can make the necessary
> > > changes.
> >
> > Can this be done as one of the last patches before branching the next
> > release? A large change like this may make backporting to the maintained
> > 3.12 and 4.1 branches more annoying. If it gets changed with a single
> > large patch, there is little need to push it through in the middle of a
> > release IMHO.
> >
> >
> We discussed a bit about it. Even if we do it at the branch of next
> release, it would still be an issue to back port to 4.1 (as it is a
> supported release for year).

Yeah, we will always have to deal with non cherry-pick backports,

> This improvement would make the review process faster (and at least new
> developer experience better), so better to do it earlier than later IMO.

I am not sure if it makes things faster/better for new developers. But
if that is the case, I will support it too.

Niels

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