Style change policy doc

Peter Kasting

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Oct 10, 2024, 10:10:37 PM10/10/24

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For those who care about policies and governance, I wrote a policy doc on style changes, including Chromium's relationship to Google style, clang-format enforcement, whether to update existing code when changing style, and team comms around changes. I gave ATLs and LSC owners several weeks (and a couple prompts) to review, and it's now approved. If you see anything seriously concerning in there, let me know.

If you don't care about formal policies, don't worry about this; there's nothing earth-shattering. It's mostly stating explicitly that "consensus of cxx@" is the typical decision maker, and that we have the authority to make changes, e.g. clang-format LSCs, without getting signoffs from others.

It also gives a policy for regularly notifying the team of style changes, which currently is "when I think of it".

I plan to surface this in markdown in the tree, presumably in styleguide/c++/; just wanted to provide a heads-up.

PK

Peter Boström

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Oct 11, 2024, 3:23:33 AM10/11/24

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Neat, thank you!

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Peter Kasting

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Dec 18, 2024, 8:09:56 PM12/18/24

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Update on the below: there was some followup, which has been reflected in the original doc, and the improved doc is now encoded in the tree as docs/process/c++_style_changes.md.

If you have any concerns or feedback yourself, please do share them; I didn't mean to railroad anything here, and the previous feedback has been helpful in clarifying the existing doc.

PK

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