[Opensim-dev] Proposal for a cleanup/correction of the region-module system

[Ryan McDougall]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm..  whenever someone brings up "an issue of common
> standards, professionalism, code quality, and cooperation", I get
> suspitious..     what might he 'really' be trying to do?  *cough*..
> anyway.

Software Engineering?

>
> Wasn't there some kind of coding standards document on the wiki?
> ohai! , it's here: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Coding_standards

Now if only one day it'll be followed....

>
> Might want to move the s vs z debate to the discussion page?
>
> -Teravus
>
> On 1/25/09, Ryan McDougall <sempuki1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My apologies for thread-jacking...
>>
>> I just want to be clear I didn't propose it because I came later and
>> decided I didn't like UK spelling. I am Canadian and historically
>> Canadians have used UK spelling.
>>
>> I proposed it for the same reason (US) English is the standard
>> language of all things international; business, science, open source,
>> etc: we have to pick one anyway, there will be more people unhappy
>> with the choice than happy, so might as well just pick the most common
>> one and suck it up.
>>
>> That said, I don't actually care a lot UK v. US. However, I *do* think
>> there should be coding standards and I *do* think they should be
>> enforced, regardless of what any individual person likes. That means
>> naming conventions, indentation, and spelling. Its an issue of common
>> standards, professionalism, code quality, and cooperation.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, MW <michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Yeah I wasn't really being serious that we should try to get as many
>> > spelling systems or langauges as we can.
>> >
>> > So I do agree that it would be best to have one, but its hard to force
>> > people to use one system if that is different to what they are used to. Its
>> > just natural to spell as you normally do.
>> >
>> > But if we are going with one then my vote has to be for UK spelling, as I
>> > said thats how the project started and to be honest I think it would be
>> > wrong to swap it later because as more people joined they decided they
>> > didn't like the spelling system. We really did have it in the code standards
>> > at one time that we used UK spelling.
>> >
>> > And also we have about as many core developers from the UK as anywhere else.
>> >
>> > But saying all that in the grand scheme of things this isn't really a big
>> > deal.
>> >
>> > Sean Dague <sdague at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > bMW wrote:
>> >> But it is in our code standards somewhere that we use UK spelling in
>> >> opensim code. ;) Or it used to be in there.
>> >>
>> >> But no I don't think really we can force people to use a different system
>> >> of spelling to what they are used to. As I feel as strong about not liking
>> >> the US spelling as you do about UK ones.
>> >>
>> >> But I would be extremely sad if all the current code was swapped to US
>> >> spelling. This was started as a UK project as it was just myself working on
>> >> it at the start.
>> >>
>> >> But its now a international project, let lets try and get as many spelling
>> >> systems as possible in there, lets even try for different languages ;)
>> >
>> > Honestly, we should pick one and run with it, and I don't really care
>> > which one. The lack of standardization here causes plenty of confusion
>> > for those of us not in auto-completing environments about which version
>> > to use. :)
>> >
>> > -Sean
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sean Dague / Neas Bade
>> > sdague at gmail.com
>> > http://dague.net
>> >
>> >
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