Standards¶
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
This guide is maintained on GitHub.
General rules¶
Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet.
Naming conventions¶
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Package versioning¶
We follow the X.Y.Z (Major.Minor.Patch) semantic for package versioning.
Test data¶
Information about downloading and working with test data from different techniques, beamlines and facilities.