Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 13401 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 21:56:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 21:56:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 9541 invoked by uid 97); 19 Aug 2002 21:56:42 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 9525 invoked by uid 97); 19 Aug 2002 21:56:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 9513 invoked by uid 98); 19 Aug 2002 21:56:41 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:56:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Henri Yandell X-X-Sender: To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: Coding conventions in Commons In-Reply-To: <20020819205029.8214.qmail@web12406.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N What are the rules when merging code from two different projects? My pet being StringUtils, I thought I'd take a process of this to see how it should be handled with a code convention. StringUtils is donated to Commons-Util from Turbine, with Turbine coding standard. I merged a large chunk of String-taglib into StringUtils. StringUtils moved over to Commons-Lang. Methods were tweaked. Avalon code was added to StringUtils. Some code from various other projects was added. Commons-Lang doesn't have a code-standard, so according to the rules as most people seem aware of them was intended to follow Sun style. Not that this is enforced hard or anything. With so many inputs into the coding convention, how can the original authors be respected? [Just because I face this a lot and am wondering how best to handle it] Hen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: