`indent` rule discussion

Opening this issue to give us a place to discuss how we would like to move forward with the indent rule, given the number of open issues we have and the complexity of the rule. I’m leaving all the currently open indent issues open (even if they have reached the time we’ve agreed upon to close old issues) so we can take stock, but am not opposed to closing them after we discuss. Might even be worth creating a GitHub Project or milestone to track this when we’ve decided how we want to proceed.

The following a list of all the currently open issues we have for the indent rule (as referenced in this comment).

Bugs

Accepted

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3352 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3737 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/4161 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6007 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/7164 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/7320

Evaluating

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/4081 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/5073 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/5540 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6571 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6670 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6890

Enhancements

Accepted

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/1801 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3638 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3845

Evaluating

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6296 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6671 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6690 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6813 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6911 https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6990

Question

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/7233

[kaicataldo]

@sstern6 Let’s wait and see what the rest of the team has to say in this discussion so we can come up with a game plan - appreciate you working on this stuff!

[platinumazure]

Most of the extra files in @not-an-aardvark’s PR are fixing obvious indent problems in the ESLint codebase (the majority being comments that weren’t indented correctly). Review time will definitely be concentrated on the rule file itself, for sure.