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Re: Being pedantic about pedanticism: HACKING styleguide

 

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/22/2012 01:47 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
>> Why are those sorts of instructions replicated in each project in the
>> first place? Shouldn't they be in the wiki?
>>
>
> :) Have you ever tried to get a dozen OpenStack contributors to agree on,
> well, anything?
>

Point taken. I was thrown off by the op's comments about merging them,
which made me think there was already consensus. :-)


>
> The reason it's duplicated in so many places is that the contributors in
> the various projects didn't agree with some of the style rules used in
> Nova...
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
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