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- All public classes and methods should have informative Javadoc comments.
- Do not use @author tags.
- Code should be formatted according to Sun's conventions, with two exceptions:
- Indent two (2) spaces per level, not four (4).
- Line length limit is 100 chars, instead of 80 chars.
- Contributions should not introduce new Checkstyle violations.
- Check for new Checkstyle violations by running
mvn checkstyle:checkstyle-aggregate, and then inspect the results in thetarget/sitedirectory. - If you use Eclipse you should install the eclipse-cs Checkstyle plugin. This plugin highlights violations in your code and is also able to automatically correct some types of violations.
- Check for new Checkstyle violations by running
- Contributions should pass existing unit tests.
- New unit tests should be provided to demonstrate bugs and fixes. JUnit is our test framework:
- You should create test classes for junit4, whose class name must start with a 'Test' prefix.
- You can run all the unit tests with the command
mvn test, or you can run a specific unit test with the commandmvn test -Dtest=<class name without package prefix>(for example:mvn test -Dtest=TestFileSystem). - After uploading your patch..., it might worth worthwhile to check if your new test have has been executed in the precommit job.
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