[webkit-dev] checking style for patches automatically [was: Calling All Reviewers]

[David Levin]

Running check-webkit-style automatically as an fyi -- maybe during
prepare-ChangeLog -- would be cool.
Personally, I thought it would be good to let it have a little more time to
bake before doing this.

dave

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Joe Mason <joe.mason at torchmobile.com> wrote:

> Adam Treat wrote:
>
>> On Friday 07 August 2009 05:51:57 pm Eric Seidel wrote:
>>
>>> We also definitely need to fix our tools to make it impossible to post a
>>> patch w/o a ChangeLog, and impossible to post a patch that doesn't pass
>>> check-webkit-style.
>>>
>>
>> This is a bad idea.  check-webkit-style still has false positives and is
>> very new.  It has been designed to never be free of false positives in fact.
>>
>
> Not to mention there will always be places where human judgement overrides
> the guidelines.
>



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