[Zope-dev] tabs in the source

[Gary Poster]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Adam GROSZER wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Maybe it's time for an svn commit police squad?
> 22 .py files have tabs... and I grepped only zope.* packages.

FWIW, to state the probably obvious, other projects handle this with  
varying degrees of increased control.

Some require one or more reviews before a commit (Launchpad and others  
support this--github maybe?  I forget).  Others require certain  
quality tests to pass before a branch is merged (I'm familiar with PQM  
or the upcoming Tarmac combined with bzr, but there are many many  
other posibilities, I'm sure).  Others use buildbot for various tests,  
using the social embarrassment vector.  Launchpad developers have  
ongoing experiments in this regard, currently combining all of the  
approaches.  I've found them much better than commit police squads  
both in terms of what they catch and what kind of interaction they  
encourage.

Jono Lange has a nice talk about code review, FWIW, with links to more  
(like Guido's old Mondrian video).  http://mumak.net/stuff/your-code-sucks.html

Gary