Lasse Schuirmann

@yegor256 - It's a bit less useful because date actually provides a hidden information. - It's probably a high number too but probably lower. - It doesn't _feel_ hacky for...

@yegor256 fyi we ended up using `date --utc +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` to get the full "meaning" advantage.

I'd go for something like JSON, since you have "things" with several properties. That will easily hold any data you have and probably be converted easy as well while supported...

self._file should be empty in the creation, also a creation is oftentimes expressed as a rename of /dev/null to the file, that's how it should look in the diff

why me? Seriously, I have no more idea bout this than anyone else.

I like @Makman2 's proposal, we do the same for bears

@fneu yeah, I do agree with determining settings before, we can still use the same function signature as we use now. Problem is that the decorators change the signature so...

@jnavila cool, thanks for the feedback, we'll look at that.

@justuswilhelm kind of, I wouldn't recommend starting with this one, it's a particularly hard thing. If you're interested please sync with us at https://gitter.im/coala-analyzer/coala .

I have worked out a prototype together with @Makman2 of which sounds like an actual feasible solution at https://github.com/coala-analyzer/next-gen-bears-prototype . I also think we might want to make a library...