Code style guide

Paradigms

• Clean Code. This phrase is often thrown around but here it refers to the book and video series of Robert C. Martin (a.k.a. uncle Bob).
• Yagni (You Aren't Gonna Need It)

Code style

• Code style in projects is unified, using a common linter and style guide.
• Comments in code are avioded and used only in exceptional cases.

Commit messages

• How to Write a Git Commit Message by Chris Beams

Branches

• use snake case
• include issue tracker reference (e.g. issue#4-add_something, CH-123-add_something, no_issue-add_something)

Special files

• Repos contain a README file and a COPYRIGHT or LICENSE file.

Documentation

• The README gets newcommers up to speed and contains instructions on how to setup the development environment