- Use 4 spaces for indentation.
- Code conforms to PEP8. Use pep8 or pycodestyle with their default settings to check for compliance. Consider using a pre-commit hook to prevent non-conforming code from entering the repo.
- Avoid inline comments, prefer (short) block comments.
- Add documentation strings to function if required.
- If you want, add yourself to the AUTHORS file.
- Follow conventional commit message guidelines.
- Scopes for commit messages are
etc
,src
and file names from the root directory. Take a look at git log to get an impression. - You can ignore the 50 chars limit for the first line of a commit message and obey to a hard limit of 72 chars.