[Python-Dev] Code reviews

[francis]

On 01/02/2012 06:35 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 03:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:44:49 +1000
>> Nick Coghlan<ncoghlan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> He keeps leaving them out, I occasionally tell him they should always
>>> be included (most recently this came up when we gave conflicting
>>> advice to a patch contributor).
>> Oh, by the way, this is also why I avoid arguing too much about style
>> in code reviews. There are two bad things which can happen:
>>
>> - your advice conflicts with advice given by another reviewer (perhaps
>>    on another issue)
>> - the contributor feels drowned under tiresome requests for style
>>    fixes ("please indent continuation lines this way")
>>
>> Both are potentially demotivating. A contributor can have his/her own
>> style if it doesn't adversely affect code quality.
> Exactly. Especially for reviews of patches from non-core people, we
> should exercise a lot of restraint: as the committers, I think we can be
> expected to bite the sour bullet and apply our uniform style (such as
> it is).
>
> It is tiresome, if not downright disappointing, to get reviews that
> are basically "nothing wrong, but please submit again with one more
> empty line between the classes", and definitely not the way to
> attract more contributors.
>
Hi to all member of this list,
I'm not a Python-Dev (only some very small patches over core-mentorship 
list.
Just my 2cents here).

I would try to relax this conflicts with a script that does the 
reformatting itself. If
that reformatting where part of the process itself do you thing that 
that would
be an issue anymore?

PS: I know that there’s a pep8 checker so it could be transformed into a 
reformatter
but I don't know if theres a pep7 checker (reformater)


Best regards!

francis