Respect The Original Style

Please respect the style of the orginal file. Make sure that your additions fit in with that style.

Every component has coding conventions and every contribution is supposed to adhere to them. You might find it a little difficult to discover the conventions used by a particular component but if you stick to the style of the original then that'll be fine.

If a patch/pull request is submitted which doesn't satisfy the component's coding conventions, then a committer will need to rewrite the submission. Getting it right in this first place will save us a lot of work.

Spaces Not Tabs

The source should be indented using spaces rather than tabs. The standard indentation is 4 spaces per indent - but respect the number of spaces used by the original.

Some IDEs include automatic source (re)formatting. If you use an IDE, please check that this feature is either disabled or set to use (4) spaces.

If a patch is submitted which uses tabs rather than spaces, then a committer will have to reformat it before it's applied. Again, it's easier to get it right in the first place rather than have to reformat and resubmit your patch.

Please try and restrict patches to the minimum necessary to implement the change. If there are a lot of irrelevant formatting or other changes, it makes it much harder to review the patch.