Formatting guidelines / rules

[mal-tee]

This is for after our launch, so low prio atm.!

Speaking from experience, maintaining open source projects with contributions from the outside can become tedious when people use different editors presets and you have huge git diffs full of white space changes and other noise.

I propose we decide on some formatting rules for source code and enforce them via tools like prettier and .editorconfig.
We'd probably have to do one nasty re-formatting commit after deciding on tools, but after that we should get clean commit diffs. :)

• editor config: line endings, etc.
• language specific formatting rules
  • Python
  • Docker?
• for the patterns:
  • JSON
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Java
  • JS

[felix-20]

For Python code, I would suggest using the PEP-8 standard. An auto formatter, that enforces this style would for example be black. Another useful tool for sorting import statements in python is isort. Maybe a combination of these tools might be a good start for this? What do you think?