[MPlayer-dev-eng] Offer of help to get me started

[Anders Rune Jensen]

Evil Kosh <evil_kosh_uk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> 	I'd like to start a bit of coding on mplayer and I thought the best way
> to get acquainted with the code and how it works is to look through it
> and see what I could fix.  I immediately saw that there were a number of
> different styles that people were developing with.
>
> 	Some people would use braces with for and if statements, others would
> not, some people would put the break in a case statement before the
> closing brace, others would not.  I thought perhaps it would be a good
> idea to get acquainted with the code and help out at the same time. 
> Also I found some parts of the code with tabbed indentations and others
> with space indentations.
>
> 	Would anyone here object to a clear style guide being formed from the
> developers here?  I'd be happy to reformat the code along those
> guidelines, if it means I can help out, everyone gets clear, well
> formatted code along an agreed style.
>
> What do you think?  well, I'm 1/2 way through reformatting mplayer.c
> with what I think is a good style.  It's consistant anyhow.  So if
> people dont like it then I can always alter it.  I'll post it to the
> list when I've finished and let people judge for themselves whether they
> think this reformatting exercise is a good idea or not.

Ever heard of pretty printers?

> thanks for listening and I hope a favourable response.

-- 
Anders Rune Jensen