No question. But there are ways to encourage people to stop digging in. If you provide tools to help those who want to come into the light, say a moz.build option that autoformatted or checked against the general formatting rules, then that might be sufficient. I think that bug 939350 shows a template for that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobby Holley" <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> To: "Martin Thomson" <m...@mozilla.com> Cc: "Till Schneidereit" <t...@tillschneidereit.net>, "Mike Hommey" <m...@glandium.org>, "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>, dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, "Andrea Marchesini" <amarches...@mozilla.com> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:43:34 AM Subject: On the usefulness of style guides (Was: style guide proposal) Attempting to fork the thread. Please reply here if you want to bikeshed on this topic in general. On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Martin Thomson <m...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Here's what I've done for the last few projects I've been on: > > * Taken the off-the-shelf formatter. > * Taken the default configuration. > * Applied that frequently. > * Moved on to more important things. > Gecko is a massive project, and has much more entrenched style decisions than other projects. This is not going to fly, I assure you. bholley _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
