Propose gen_server et all "no-timeout" functions as no_common_caveats?

[paulo-ferraz-oliveira]

Name

None yet.

Brief Description

Should we propose some of the base functions (that have a timeout counterpart) to be added to the list of no_common_caveats functions? We could even call this "use-explicit-timeout".

There's a few considerations here:

• the list of functions would eventually have to be updated - and I prefer not to have to revisit rules, most of the time
• it's possible that the interface breaks in the future (it is already possible today, of course) and this is also extra-maintenance, because now the suggestion is OTP-version specific

This raised, though, another interesting thought, to me.

Should elvis_core consider rules to be grouped by severity, such as info, warning, all, etc.? There's already a proposal to categorize them by "type".

Reasoning

Check this out: https://erlangforums.com/t/thoughts-on-the-default-timeout-for-gen-server-call/2812

Refactoring Proposal

"Update your code."