5 Beagle's source repository is in GNOME CVS, in the module 'beagle'.
7 For information on GNOME CVS, see:
8 http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs/html.
14 If you have a patch you'd like to submit, please open a tracking bug on
15 bugzilla.gnome.org (product 'beagle'). Attach the patch (and any additional
16 required files) to the bug. The core developers are all on the beagle-bugs
17 mailing list, so we'll see that it is there. We will review it, but if people
18 are busy it might not happen right away.
20 In the past we'd been doing patch review on the mailing list, but that hasn't
21 always worked very well. Sometimes patches get lost in the shuffle.
27 Code that parses files or otherwise interacts w/ low-level details from
28 third-party apps (i.e. parsing gaim logs, undocumented nautilus metafiles and
29 stuff from .gnome2/epiphany, etc.) should probably be broken out into small
30 chunks of semi-independent code and placed in Beagle/Util. That kind of code
31 is just ugly by nature, and I want to keep it from getting mixed into the
32 beagle code as much as possible.
34 We also want to avoid non-core dependencies in Util. Anything in Util that
35 requires gtk+ or gnome should go into a separate UtilUi at some point.
41 Beagle attempts to follow the Mono coding conventions. The following
42 description of those conventions was shamelessly stolen from Dashboard's
47 If there is a bug in your implementation tag the problem by using
48 the word "FIXME" in the code, together with a description of the
51 Do not use XXX or TODo or obscure descriptions, because
52 otherwise people will not be able to understand what you mean.
55 * Basic code formatting
57 In order to keep the code consistent, please use the following
58 conventions. From here on `good' and `bad' are used to attribute
59 things that would make the coding style match, or not match. It is not
60 a judgement call on your coding abilities, but more of a style and
61 look call. Please follow these guidelines to ensure prettiness.
63 Use 8 space tabs for writing your code.
65 Since we are using 8-space tabs, you might want to consider the Linus
66 Torvalds trick to reduce code nesting. Many times in a loop, you will
67 find yourself doing a test, and if the test is true, you will
68 nest. Many times this can be changed. Example:
71 for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
77 This take precious space, instead write it like this:
79 for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
87 * Use a space before an opening parenthesis when calling
88 functions, or indexing, like this:
93 * Do not put a space after the opening parenthesis and the
96 good: Method (a); array [10];
98 bad: Method ( a ); array[ 10 ];
100 * Inside a code block, put the opening brace on the same line
116 * Avoid using unecessary open/close braces, vertical space
128 * When defining a method, use the C style for brace placement,
129 that means, use a new line for the brace, like this:
140 * Properties and indexers are an exception, keep the
141 brace on the same line as the property declaration.
142 Rationale: this makes it visually
143 simple to distinguish them.
160 Notice how the accessor "get" also keeps its brace on the same
163 For very small properties, you can compress things:
167 get { return value; }
171 * Use white space in expressions liberally, except in the presence
176 if (a + 5 > Method (Blah () + 4))
179 if (a+5>Method(Blah()+4))
181 * For any new files, please use a descriptive introduction, like
185 // System.Comment.cs: Handles comments in System files.
188 // Juan Perez (juan@address.com)
190 // (C) 2002 Address, Inc (http://www.address.com)
193 * Switch statements have the case at the same indentation as the
203 * Private variable and function local variable names are under_scored
204 (no camelCase please).
206 If you are using Emacs, you might want to put something like this
209 (defun poor-mans-csharp-mode ()
211 (setq mode-name "C#")
212 (set-variable 'tab-width 8)
213 (set-variable 'indent-tabs-mode t)
214 (set-variable 'c-basic-offset 8)
215 (c-set-offset 'inline-open 0)
216 (c-set-offset 'case-label 0)
219 (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.cs\\'" . poor-mans-csharp-mode))