Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] CODING_STYLE amendments

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
<miguel.filho@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, malc <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:
>>
>> While intentions of this are good, i believe this goes too far, i doubt
>> that the proposed additions are enforcable and have no doubts that they
>> will be widely ignored and at the same time provide more grounds for
>> whining. Furthermore the existing code doesn't follow them, going out on
>> a limb, it's more likely that one would look around the code he/she
>> modifies and base his/her modifications on the surrounding code than to
>> follow the style that conflicts with it.
>
> The existing code that I have touched don't follow the current coding
> style guidance, much less all the new recommendations being suggested.
>
> Although, I do believe that this situation needs to change. If we
> agree in a coding style, I would volunteer to be a some kind of
> observer to fix and alert people about coding styles mistakes.

I fully agree on the need of change and support your excellent idea.
There are other ways to solve the problem, but I believe we need more
order than more chaos. Perhaps we the QEMU developers should appoint
you the Guardian of the CODING_STYLE, and add a rule that no patch
shall be committed without your CS-Acked-by line?