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<br>What is the procedure and how do we guarantee that there are no breakages?
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Dennis Grant wrote:<br>> I don't want to get all programmer grammer nazi here<br><br>Programmer grammar Nazi. ;)<br><br>I think many of us who are working on the periphery with vtigercrm have<br>pet peeves about the formatted representation of the source code. Those<br>pet peeves confer a certain squeal point for making a comment about it<br>(no pun) and another, higher, one for doing something about it on our own.<br><br>The interval between squeal points is where we've been circling for<br>months. No few persons (rightly) want to clean up a fraction of the code<br>when new checkins aren't guaranteed follow the same standards.<br><br>And so, the technical debt incurred by the fixable problem of poor source<br>formatting (including commentless code) continues to impose costs on<br>vtigercrm development.<br><br>Further, if we fix this before major vtigercrm-5.x branching, we reap<br>major merging benefits. If only after, we get zero backporting crosstalk<br>between branches, like we have with vtigercrm/branches/4.2 and<br>vtigercrm/trunk.<br><br><br>Fundable Fixes<br>--------------<br><br>What about setting up a fundable.org project for sponsoring source<br>cleanup? We who are interested in seeing the code beautified could assign<br>a monetary value to that interest.<br><br>Enough support would collectively make it worth the core team's while to<br>stop coding for a few days, and clean up the broken windows of the source<br>formatting.<br><br>Volunteers would of course augment their efforts at the same time, and<br>going forward, friendly admonishment could be leveled upon lazy checkins<br>with poorly formatted source.<br><br><a href="http://fundable.org/">http://fundable.org/</a><br>(example)<br><a href="http://www.fundable.org/groupactions/ploneboard-phase-one/view?searchterm=plone">http://www.fundable.org/groupactions/ploneboard-phase-one/view?searchterm=plone</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Get started with creating presentations online - <a href="http://zohoshow.com?vt">http://zohoshow.com?vt</a> <br>
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