[Codenarc-user] CodeNarc - Philosophy of the Basic Ruleset

[Chris M. <chr...@ea...>]

Hamlet (and anybody else),
 
In many ways, I patterned CodeNarc after PMD. That included creating a
"basic" ruleset. The intent was that these were "standard" rules that
everyone could agree on. That is typically the first ruleset that people
turn on, and no one would argue that the violations need to be fixed.
 
I may have strayed a bit from that intent when I added the Unnecessary*Rules
(e.g. UnnecessaryBooleanExpressionRule, UnnecessaryIfStatementRule, etc.),
or perhaps other rules in the basic ruleset.. When I first started this
project, I knew that categorization of rules would be challenging sometimes.
 
A few days ago, I attended a presentation/discussion of the Sonar tool at my
company. We were discussing PMD and Checkstyle, and a couple people
indicated that even the PMD "basic" ruleset is somewhat subjective, in terms
of being universal or not. Several people (including me) agreed that using
tools like this eventually requires customization of the chosen rule set,
since there really can't be a one-size-fits-all.
 
All that being said... I am ok continuing with what we have, and leaving the
current rules where they are. But if anyone has strong opinions about a
better categorization, it would be better to consider reorganizing now
rather than later.
 
Thanks.
Chris