MousePaw Media Standards

About the Standards

MousePaw Media has authored a number of standards to guide their ongoing software development efforts. These standards are made freely available for the benefit of the open source community, and the programming community at large.

You can access the source files for these standards from the GitHub mirror. For more information about contributing, see Feedback.

Public Standards

These standards are intended for general use.

• Commenting Showing Intent [CSI]
  • Purpose and Theory
  • Format
  • Types of Comments
• Live-In Testing [LIT]
  • Purpose
  • Philosophy and Limitations
  • Vocabulary
  • Implementation
  • General Guidelines
  • Test Types
  • Test Suite Types
  • Test Library Structure
• Quantified Task Management [QTM]
  • Vision
  • Measures
  • Accomplishment
  • Project Volatility Scoring

In-House Standards

These standards were written specifically for MousePaw Media.

• Coding Standards
  • Repository and Versioning Conventions
  • C and C++
  • Python
• Licensing Standards
  • Software Licenses
  • Content Licenses
• Software Standards
  • Legend
  • Software Recommendations
  • Disallowed Software
• Technical Standards
  • Languages
  • Libraries
  • Operating System Support Targets

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page

Feedback

These standards are written and maintained by the MousePaw Media Standards Board. Feedback is welcome via email (developers@mousepawmedia.com).

You can also frequently find us in the #mousepawmedia channel on Freenode.

Pull requests to this repository are not accepted. If you wish to propose a change, email your patch to us at the address above.

For more information about contributing to MousePaw Media projects, see mousepawmedia.com/contributing.