From: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
To: Artem Mygaiev <Artem_Mygaiev@epam.com>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Anastasiia Lukianenko <Anastasiia_Lukianenko@epam.com>,
"jbeulich@suse.com" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"George.Dunlap@citrix.com" <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>,
"vicooodin@gmail.com" <vicooodin@gmail.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org"
<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"committers@xenproject.org" <committers@xenproject.org>,
"viktor.mitin.19@gmail.com" <viktor.mitin.19@gmail.com>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
Subject: RE: Xen Coding style and clang-format
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:07:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2010191101250.12247@sstabellini-ThinkPad-T480s> (raw)
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, Artem Mygaiev wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
> Sent: пятница, 16 октября 2020 г. 13:24
> To: Anastasiia Lukianenko <Anastasiia_Lukianenko@epam.com>; jbeulich@suse.com; George.Dunlap@citrix.com
> Cc: Artem Mygaiev <Artem_Mygaiev@epam.com>; vicooodin@gmail.com; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; committers@xenproject.org; viktor.mitin.19@gmail.com; Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
> Subject: Re: Xen Coding style and clang-format
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 16/10/2020 10:42, Anastasiia Lukianenko wrote:
> > > Thanks for your advices, which helped me improve the checker. I
> > > understand that there are still some disagreements about the
> > > formatting, but as I said before, the checker cannot be very flexible
> > > and take into account all the author's ideas.
> >
> > I am not sure what you refer by "author's ideas" here. The checker
> > should follow a coding style (Xen or a modified version):
> > - Anything not following the coding style should be considered as
> > invalid.
> > - Anything not written in the coding style should be left
> > untouched/uncommented by the checker.
> >
>
> Agree
>
> > > I suggest using the
> > > checker not as a mandatory check, but as an indication to the author of
> > > possible formatting errors that he can correct or ignore.
> >
> > I can understand that short term we would want to make it optional so
> > either the coding style or the checker can be tuned. But I don't think
> > this is an ideal situation to be in long term.
> >
> > The goal of the checker is to automatically verify the coding style and
> > get it consistent across Xen. If we make it optional or it is
> > "unreliable", then we lose the two benefits and possibly increase the
> > contributor frustration as the checker would say A but we need B.
> >
> > Therefore, we need to make sure the checker and the coding style match.
> > I don't have any opinions on the approach to achieve that.
>
> Of the list of remaining issues from Anastasiia, looks like only items 5
> and 6 are conform to official Xen coding style. As for remainning ones,
> I would like to suggest disabling those that are controversial (items 1,
> 2, 4, 8, 9, 10). Maybe we want to have further discussion on refining
> coding style, we can use these as starting point. If we are open to
> extending style now, I would suggest to add rules that seem to be
> meaningful (items 3, 7) and keep them in checker.
Good approach. Yes, I would like to keep 3, 7 in the checker.
I would also keep 8 and add a small note to the coding style to say that
comments should be aligned where possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 9:18 Xen Coding style and clang-format Anastasiia Lukianenko
2020-09-30 9:57 ` Jan Beulich
2020-09-30 10:24 ` George Dunlap
2020-10-01 9:06 ` Anastasiia Lukianenko
2020-10-01 10:06 ` George Dunlap
2020-10-07 10:19 ` Anastasiia Lukianenko
2020-10-08 1:07 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-10-12 14:37 ` Anastasiia Lukianenko
2020-10-12 18:09 ` George Dunlap
2020-10-13 12:30 ` Jan Beulich
2020-10-16 9:42 ` Anastasiia Lukianenko
2020-10-16 10:23 ` Julien Grall
2020-10-16 11:37 ` Artem Mygaiev
2020-10-19 18:07 ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]
2020-10-20 17:13 ` Julien Grall
2020-10-23 9:39 ` Anastasiia Lukianenko
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