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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why are those sorts of instructions replicated in each project in the first
place? Shouldn't they be in the wiki?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Bogott <abogott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>    Just now I set out to merge a recent style guide change from
> python-novaclient into the hacking docs of other OpenStack projects.  My
> patch didn't apply, though, because each project has subtly diverging
> HACKING files.
>
>    Rather than contribute to this divergence, I've now read and compared
> the style guides from Nova, Glance, Keystone, python-keystoneclient, and
> python-novaclient.  From these diffs I've created a file (attached) that
> encompasses the total of all guidelines from all projects.  Remarkably,
> this merge produced only minor disagreements, described below under the
> heading FLAMEBAIT.
>
>    I propose that this unified style guide be copied into each of the
> above projects, with a mandate to maintain consistency henceforth.  Any
> objections?
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> FLAMEBAIT (docstring format):
>
> The only explicit contradiction I came across is regarding docstring
> formatting.  Glance says this:
>
> **DO NOT** leave an extra newline before the closing triple-double-quote.
>
> Nova, this:
>
>  A docstring ends with an empty line before the closing quotations.
>
> I propose that we just pick one or the other, or remove both prescriptions.
>
> FLAMEBAIT (filename):
>
> Some projects have a HACKING file, and some have a HACKING.rst file.
>  Doesn't .rst generally indicate a REST API definition?  I propose that the
> file be called HACKING.
>
>
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