Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:13:08 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:49:11PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On the other hand, the idea of a coding style hall of shame - publicly > humiliating kernel contributers - is immature and just plain silly. It's > good to have a giggle thinking about it, but that's where it should stop.
If you've got a more effective way of getting people to do the right thing, lets hear it. Remember, the goal is to protect the source base, not your, my, or another's ego.
I used to think Sun's approach was pretty brutal, and I still do actually. But I haven't found anything else which works as well. I don't use that technique at BitMover, instead I rewrite code that I find offensive. That's less annoying to the engineers but it is also a lot more costly in terms of my time. Since we're a small company, I can keep up. When we double in size, I won't be able to do so and I suspect we'll revert to the Sun way. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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