• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prettyprint
• http://editorconfig.org/

• https://github.com/zeke/semantic-pull-requests#
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855# EMaiL

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• https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/# GiT CommiT LoG
  • https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines#Patch_Header_Recommendations:_Upstream-Status
• https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/commit-messages/

Try to follow the Existing coding standards :

• http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html
• http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/distpractice.html
• http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html
• http://home.gna.org/ngl/doc_coding.html
• http://ima.udg.es/~frederic/ResearchInterest/ToddHoffGL.html# CPlusPlus
• http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Names_and_Order_of_Includes
• http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle# Linux :
• http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/C-C++Beautifier-HOWTO.html
• http://news.nopcode.org/miau/wk/BadCoding
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/wiki/TOFU_%28Usenet_et_Internet%29# email : Read top reply bottom
• https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Native_Platform_Coding_Idiom_and_Style_Guide# TizeN

Source Directory package (use lowercase and add '-' and version to filename) :

prefered :

• Debian , note that last - preceade version number )

tar cfvz package-name_1.2.0.tar.gz package-name-1.2.0/

• Windows keep dot for extensions

zip package_name-1_2_0.zip package_name-1.2.0/

Avoid :

PackageName or package_name for dir and archives

makefile hints :

${PACKAGE}-$(VERS).tar.gz:
@ls $(SRC) | sed s:^:${PACKAGE}-$(VERS)/: >MANIFEST
@(cd ..; ln -s ${PACKAGE} ${PACKAGE}-$(VERS))
(cd ..; tar -czvf ${PACKAGE}/${PACKAGE}-$(VERS).tar.gz `cat ${PACKAGE}/MANIFEST`)
@(cd ..; rm ${PACKAGE}-$(VERS))

Please provide those additional files :

• COPYING : a copy of the Licence, check http://opensource.org
• AUTHORS : all authors and contibutors
• README : short description
• INSTALL : how to install
• NEWS : new features, since last package

• line length must not exceed 79 characters (75 preffered emails , 77cols*50row for a4)
• indentation should be carried out by <space> characters only

(no <TAB>, as this is interpreted very differently between editors)

• indentation: Emacs-C-mode-style (tab=2 chars)

this is also easy to achieve with “indent” without any parameters (GNU style), exceptions (not mandatory):

• on MSVC : Tools / Options / Edit / C++ : indent=block tab=space , tab=2 ident=2

Preferred :

• no trailing white space at the end of a line
• no DOS line endings (not CRLF but just LF)

Software : http://sourceforge.net/projects/astyle/

Follow sun conventions

• java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html

• all preprocessor definitions/macros are starting CAPS
• filenames lowercase

Usefull decoration (note the 80 cols delimitor and RCS keywords )

/* -*- mode: C; c-file-style: "gnu"; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- */
/* #ident "$Id: myfile.h,v 1.1 YYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS ${USER} Exp $"
/* Author: ${LOGNAME} <${EMAIL}>, (C) YYYY - $Author:$
/* Copyright: See README file that comes with this distribution
/****************************************************************************/
#ifndef MyFile_h_
#define MyFile_h_

#endif
/* vi: set ts=4 sw=4 expandtab: */
/* #eof "$Id: myfile.h,v 1.1 YYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS ${USER} Exp $" */

see C

//* -*- mode: C++; c-basic-offset: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
//* vim: ft=cpp:expandtab:ts=2:sw=4:softtabstop=4:
//* #ident "$Id: file.h,v 1.1 YYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS ${USER} Exp $"
//* SPDX-Licence-Identifier: GPL3+
//* Author: ${LOGNAME} <${EMAIL}>, (C) YYYY - $Author:$
//* Copyright: See README file that comes with this distribution
//****************************************************************************/
#ifndef ClassName_h_
#define ClassName_h_
class ClassName
{
public:
 void functionName();

 void functionContents()
 { //<= jump to funct
   if ( true ) { // comment
       int a=42;
    } //<= aligned with if statetement 
 }

protected:
 char* p_name_;
};
#endif
/* #eof "$Id: file.h,v 1.1 YYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS ${USER} Exp $" */

file.h # namespace "foo" { #include "foo.hpp" } 
file.hxx # templates + .cxx for implem

• https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/coding-standards#
• http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#Rt-raise#

Try to reuse previous conventions without overloading default ones

static char THIS_FILE[[]] = **FILE**; // [[WinCE]]

ViM : GnuMake :

# ex: set tabstop=4 noexpandtab:

Python :

# -*- mode: python; python-indent-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-

• Gnumake: # ex: set tabstop=4 noexpandtab:
• EmacS
• https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/#

Filename : 16 char ( Peekton )

• http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html#Change-Logs
• http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/
• Portability : http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
• http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/CodingStyle
• https://wiki.iotivity.org/iotivity_c_coding_standards
• http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/# CommiT
• https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit

LinuX:

• http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/instructions.html
• http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/providers/index.html
• https://www.gobolinux.org/

LegaL:

• https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-IX-file-tags/#
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855#

MisC :

• https://www.m31coding.com/blog/semantic-reviews.html#
• https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Best_Known_Methods_%28BKMs%29_for_Package_Updating#Patch_Comments#

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