[Openembedded-architecture] Consistent white-space indentation in metadata layers

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 21:50 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 17:24 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> I also agree that making this change to oe-core doesn't seem like it
> would be a dramatic upheaval.  There seem to be 302 .bb files and 75
> classes containing tabs in their shell fragments (which is a bit
> under
> half the total of each) and I can't see any reason why they couldn't
> be
> safely replaced in an automated way.  And it probably is true that
> oe-
> core has undergone more disruptive changes than this in the last five
> years without any severe consequences.  No doubt any reformatting of
> this kind would cause some short-term hassle for people backporting
> patches to older branches or maintaining their own patches on top of
> upstream oe-core, but both these activities are already fairly
> miserable occupations and I doubt this extra grief would really move
> the needle in terms of level of overall suffering.  And even if it
> did,
> they'd get over it.

I take issue with this appraisal, having maintained the fido stable
branch and pitched in with some of the stable branches since then. 

Maintaining a stable branch is a significant amount of work, which only
increases with each release and that most maintainers end up doing in
addition to their day jobs.

Even if this did barely move the needle in terms of overall suffering,
though I very much doubt that is true, we would need a *very* good
reason to force that suffering on the unsung heroes who maintain stable
releases.

Joshua