[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS coding standards

[Vijay Bellur]

On 05/24/2013 10:33 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We don't yet seem to have a "coding standards" document for the GlusterFS
> code base.

This is what I reckon as the coding standard guide:

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/legacy/coding-standard.pdf

Should not be in legacy as most current patches do follow rules in the 
document.

>
> Anyone object to having one created?
>
> After appropriate discussion and deciding on what to put in it that is.
>
> If that's a decent idea, these are my first random thoughts about it:
>
>   + For the Python code base, follow the Python "PEP 8" standard:
>
>       http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
>
>     It's fairly widespread in the Python community, and many Python tools
>     know how to work with it.

I do like the idea of "PEP 8". We do not have any defined standards for 
python code and this is something that we can adopt.

-Vijay