[omarqureshi]

So you don't do the formatting by hand, you configure your editor of choice to do the work for you, assuming it is smart enough. If you have a group of people that use the same editor they can share this information through a developer wiki.

Sounds like you just need to have a well defined style guide rather than trying to micromanage developer habits.

[justncase80]

What's also good is to establish a procedure to change the guidelines. It can be a source of frustration to have some funky guideline that most of the team doesn't like.

[nraynaud]

that's what the wednesday afternoon is for, changing our way of working. But we sometimes do it before. We've a problem with our python formatting guidelines, and I'll bring the issue tomorrow I think (we've to decide for spaces or tabs and camelcase or underscore, since it's not our only language, we've to arbitrage between a common rule for all our languages, or the usual rule of each language).