Review Checklist

Although we have coding guidelines and JavaDocs on the APIs, there are mistakes that are regularly done by new contributors in PRs, which often slip through the reviews.

This page should serve as a quick checklist for reviewers to remember what to look for to make sure that those things are addressed by the contributors.

This should be a living document, so every maintainer/reviewer is free to add stuff to the list, which he regularly notices in reviews.

Checklist

1. proper bundle name in pom.xml ("openHAB Add-ons :: Bundles :: BTicino ... Binding")
2. include new bundles in build (main pom.xml) and karaf feature (in src/main/feature of the bundle)
3. NOTICE: EPLv2 license with NOTICE file
4. NOTICE: all dependencies must be listed in NOTICE file
5. README: Based on our template, same sections should be present
6. README: new line after every sentence
7. README: section headers should be capitalized ("Thing Configuration", not "Thing configuration")
8. README: mention all thing type ids, channel ids, configuration parameter keys in the appropriate section
9. Thing/Channel labels should be short (<25 chars, max 2-3 words) and capitalized
10. conservative use of log levels (mainly debug, unless bugs to report or misconfiguration other than on things)
11. handler.initialize() to return fast and set a valid/correct Thing status
12. use of lambdas for runnables
13. handle REFRESH commands
14. All conversions of byte[] to String or vice versa should have the Charset specified as well.