RFC: Running clang-format across all Plasma (and more?) repos

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday 11 Jul 2019 14:18:08 David Edmundson wrote:
> One topic discussed at the recent Plasma sprint was that we should run
> a code formatting tool (clang-format) over all our repos to ease all
> future review comments about whitespace.
> 
> All new contributions simply have to run the same tool and we get
> consistent code without having to comment on every minor thing in a
> review individually.
> 
> I've written up a wall of text outlining steps, challenges etc.
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T11214
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts / objections?

Presumably this would impose a common coding style throughout all KDE 
repositories? Or would each project be able to specify its own clang-format 
configuration? In past discussions about KDE coding style, it was accepted that 
while Frameworks and PIM libraries would adopt a common style, Applications 
would be left to decide for themselves.

There may be more benefits from what you propose for larger projects, because 
of the larger number of contributors and larger volume of reviews. But for 
smaller ones with one or two contributors and few reviews, it bring few 
benefits.

It should be for individual projects to decide whether automatic code 
formatting would be desirable or useful to them. This will allow projects to 
continue to use their own coding styles where they wish, and allow for hand-
crafted formatting to be left intact where this is desired.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm