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Subject: [VOTE][LAZY] Format all supported branches
From: Christopher <ctubbsii@apache.org>
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To make it easier to apply some minimal checkstyle rules for ACCUMULO-3451,
I'm announcing my intentions to do a full, one-time, auto-format and
organize imports on all our supported branches (1.5, 1.6, and master) to
bring us up to some degree of compliance with our agreed-upon formatting
standards.

Benefits:
To have additional checks, in particular against javadoc problems and other
common trivial warnings in the build.
To ensure less divergence from our agreed-upon formatting standards.
Formatting first makes it much less tedious and easier on me to add these
checks to the build.

Issues I've considered:
I will deal with all the merge conflicts.
I will ignore generated thrift code.
Conflicts with new code in people's branches should be minimal (and easily
resolved by formatting according to our standards).
Regarding concerns about history tracking, in general, each format change
is small, but they are numerous. So, the impact on tracking history should
be very minimal (you'll see things like a brace moved to the same line as
the else statement it is associated with... stuff that won't generally
affect your ability to debug).
I'll also do a "format only" commit, separately from any substantive
changes regarding the rule changes, so the mass formatting change will
happen in one place, and it will also be easy to revert, if absolutely
necessary.

I'll give this 24 hours (it can be reverted if somebody objects after that).

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Christopher L Tubbs II
http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii

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