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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 14:29:10 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 14:29:10 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 86.0.1.upstream/86.0.1upstream
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diff --git a/remote/doc/CodeStyle.md b/remote/doc/CodeStyle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eade28e2b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/remote/doc/CodeStyle.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +Style guide +=========== + +Like other projects, we also have some guidelines to keep to the code. +For the overall remote agent project, a few rough rules are: + + * Make your code readable and sensible, and don’t try to be + clever. Prefer simple and easy solutions over more convoluted + and foreign syntax. + + * Fixing style violations whilst working on a real change as a + preparatory clean-up step is good, but otherwise avoid useless + code churn for the sake of conforming to the style guide. + + * Code is mutable and not written in stone. Nothing that + is checked in is sacred and we encourage change to make + this a pleasant ecosystem to work in. + + * We never land any code that is unnecessary or unused. + + +Documentation +------------- + +We keep our documentation (what you are reading right now!) in-tree +under [remote/doc]. Updates and minor changes to documentation should +ideally not be scrutinised to the same degree as code changes to +encourage frequent updates so that documentation does not go stale. +To that end, documentation changes with `r=me a=doc` from anyone +with commit access level 3 are permitted. + +Use fmt(1) or an equivalent editor specific mechanism (such as +<kbd>Meta-Q</kbd> in Emacs) to format paragraphs at a maximum of +75 columns with a goal of roughly 65. This is equivalent to `fmt +-w75 -g65`, which happens to the default on BSD and macOS. + +The documentation can be built locally this way: + + % ./mach doc remote + +[remote/doc]: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/remote/doc + + +Linting +------- + +The remote agent consists mostly of JavaScript code, and we lint that +using [mozlint], which is harmonises different linters including [eslint]. + +To run the linter and get sensible output: + + % ./mach lint -funix remote + +For certain classes of style violations, eslint has an automatic +mode for fixing and formatting code. This is particularly useful +to keep to whitespace and indentation rules: + + % ./mach eslint --fix remote + +The linter is also run as a try job (shorthand `ES`) which means +any style violations will automatically block a patch from landing +(if using Autoland) or cause your changeset to be backed out (if +landing directly on inbound). + +If you use git(1) you can [enable automatic linting] before +you push to a remote through a pre-push (or pre-commit) hook. +This will run the linters on the changed files before a push and +abort if there are any problems. This is convenient for avoiding +a try run failing due to a simple linting issue. + +[mozlint]: /tools/lint/usage.html +[eslint]: https://eslint.org/ +[enable automatic linting]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/tools/lint/usage.html#using-a-vcs-hook |