Coding Standards

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Common Rules

  • Use spaces and not tabs wherever possible.
  • Indentation is 4 spaces (and set tab width in your environment/editor to 4 spaces).

vim Minimal Configuration

set tabstop=4
set expandtab
" By default, go for an indent of 4
set shiftwidth=4
" Do clever indent things. Don't make a # force column zero.
set autoindent

Licence

We have decided to release all our open sourced software under the GNU Affero General Public License (Version 3, 19 November 2007).

Scripts of Programmes consisting of one file

 Copyright (C) 2014 stepping stone GmbH
                    Switzerland
                    http://www.stepping-stone.ch
                    support@stepping-stone.ch
  
 Authors:
  Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch>

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public 
 License as published  by the Free Software Foundation, version
 3 of the License.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
 License  along with this program.
 If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Scripts of Programmes consisting of multiple files

 Copyright (C) 2014 stepping stone GmbH
                    Switzerland
                    http://www.stepping-stone.ch
                    support@stepping-stone.ch
  
 Authors:
  Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch>

 This file is part of the stoney cloud.

 stoney cloud is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public 
 License as published  by the Free Software Foundation, version
 3 of the License.

 stoney cloud is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
 License  along with stoney cloud.
 If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


File Headers

The following file header examples presume, that your scripts of programmes consist of multiple files.

PHP

Whereat Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch> needs to be replaced by the actual author.

<?php
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 stepping stone GmbH
 *                    Switzerland
 *                    http://www.stepping-stone.ch
 *                    support@stepping-stone.ch
 *  
 * Authors:
 *  Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch>
 *
 * This file is part of the stoney cloud.
 *
 * stoney cloud is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public 
 * License as published  by the Free Software Foundation, version
 * 3 of the License.
 *
 * stoney cloud is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
 * License  along with stoney cloud.
 * If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 * $Id$
 *
 *
 */

Bash

Whereat Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch> needs to be replaced by the actual author.

#!/bin/bash
################################################################################
# <FILE-NAME>.sh - <SHORT DESCRIPTION>
################################################################################
#
# Copyright (C) 2014 stepping stone GmbH
#                    Switzerland
#                    http://www.stepping-stone.ch
#                    support@stepping-stone.ch
#  
# Authors:
#  Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch>
#
# This file is part of the stoney cloud.
#
# stoney cloud is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public 
# License as published  by the Free Software Foundation, version
# 3 of the License.
#
# stoney cloud is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
# License  along with stoney cloud.
# If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# $Id$
#
#
################################################################################

Perl

Whereat Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch> needs to be replaced by the actual author.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Copyright (C) 2014 stepping stone GmbH
#                    Switzerland
#                    http://www.stepping-stone.ch
#                    support@stepping-stone.ch
#  
# Authors:
#  Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch>
#
# This file is part of the stoney cloud.
#
# stoney cloud is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public 
# License as published  by the Free Software Foundation, version
# 3 of the License.
#
# stoney cloud is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
# License  along with stoney cloud.
# If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# $Id$
#
#

Config

Whereat Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch> needs to be replaced by the actual author.

# Copyright (C) 2014 stepping stone GmbH
#                    Switzerland
#                    http://www.stepping-stone.ch
#                    support@stepping-stone.ch
#  
# Authors:
#  Hans Mustermann <hans.mustermann@stepping-stone.ch>
#
# This file is part of the stoney cloud.
#
# stoney cloud is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public 
# License as published  by the Free Software Foundation, version
# 3 of the License.
#
# stoney cloud is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
# License  along with stoney cloud.
# If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# $Id$
#
#
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