You make a lot of good points but the one I disagree with is...

You made a patch and couldn't be bothered to stick with the style already evident in the code?

If I'm a casual user of the code and I whip up something that works and is similar to the apparent style, then yeah, I can't be arsed to format it correctly for submission to your project (not at $WORK). Why should I spend hours to learn yet another set of coding standards to submit a 10 line patch just to satisfy some stupid robot? If an actual developer took a peek, he'd see exactly what the bug was... it's just silly to reject what might be a critical security fix just because some guy used tabs instead of 4 spaces.

I do understand, people submitting half-assed patches all the time is lame, but we should have a bit of patience with the random_guy@internet that actually bothered to submit a patch.

In reply to Re^4: CPAN's perltidy to the rescue! (value) by Anonymous Monk
in thread CPAN's perltidy to the rescue! by tfredett

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