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On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> After seeing a bunch of code changes to enforce new hacking rules, I'd
> like to propose dropping some of the rules we have. The overall patch
> series is here -
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack-dev/hacking+branch:master+topic:be_less_silly,n,z
>
> H402 - 1 line doc strings should end in punctuation. The real statement
> is this should be a summary sentence. A sentence is not just a set of
> words that end in a period. Squirel fast bob. It's something deeper.
> This rule thus isn't really semantically useful, especially when you are
> talking about at 69 character maximum (79 - 4 space indent - 6 quote
> characters).
>

Thoughts on removing all pep257 (http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/)
things from hacking? If projects would still like to enforce it there is a
flake8 extension for pep257 itself.


>
> H803 - First line of a commit message must *not* end in a period. This
> was mostly a response to an unreasonable core reviewer that was -1ing
> people for not having periods. I think any core reviewer that -1s for
> this either way should be thrown off the island, or at least made fun
> of, a lot. Again, the clarity of a commit message is not made or lost by
> the lack or existence of a period at the end of the first line.
>

++ for removing this, in general the git based rules are funny to enforce.
As you can run 'tox -epep8' before a commit and everything will pass, then
you write your commit message and now it will fail.


>
> H305 - Enforcement of libraries fitting correctly into stdlib, 3rdparty,
> our tree. This biggest issue here is it's built in a world where there
> was only 1 viable python version, 2.7. Python's stdlib is actually
> pretty dynamic and grows over time. As we embrace more python 3, and as
> distros start to make python3 be front and center, what does this even
> mean? The current enforcement can't pass on both python2 and python3 at
> the same time in many cases because of that.
>

++ Oh Python 2 vs. 3

For this one I think we should leave the rule in HACKING.rst but explicitly
document it as a recommendation, and that python2 vs python3 makes this
unenforceable.


>
> We have to remember we're all humans, and it's ok to have grey space.
> Like in 305, you *should* group the libraries if you can, but stuff like
> that should be labeled as 'nit' in the review, and only ask the author
> to respin it if there are other more serious issues to be handled.
>
> Let's optimize a little more for fun, and stop throwing -1s for silly
> things. :)
>
>         -Sean
>
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