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<h1>Sane Software Manifesto</h1> |
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<p>In respect to user freedoms, privacy, liberty, quality, mental health and world peace we create software according to these guidelines.</p> |
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<li>Every piece of Sane software is also <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free software</a>.</li> |
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<li>The user has freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and change it (i.e. has access to the source code under a free software license) and to distribute modified or unmodified copies.</li> |
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<li>Must be buildable using free software toolchain (like GNU/Linux + GCC or OpenJDK etc.).</li> |
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<li>Should not promote non-free (proprietary) software or services.</li> |
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<li>Copyleft licenses (like GNU GPL or GNU Affero GPL) are strongly recommended because they guarantee software freedoms to every single end-user and prevent possibility that freedom vanishes somewhere in the distribution chain and the user can't benefit from the free software albeit the software is build on originally free source code.</li> |
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<li>If the software is distributed with a hardware, the hardware must support instalation of independently built software without any restrictions or requirements (e.g. digital signature from the original author).</li> |
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<h2>Documented</h2> |
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<li>At least basic documentation must be released under a free license (GNU FDL is recommended).</li> |
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<li>There might be also other documentation/books released under any license and price.</li> |
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<li>But average software engineer must be able to build and operate the software with just the free (basic) documentation.</li> |
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<li>There must be a free documentation with description of building and running the software on a fresh operating system installation including description of all dependencies.</li> |
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<li>documentation should focus on all target groups: users, administrators, developers</li> |
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<h2>Semantic versioning</h2> |
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<li><a href="http://semver.org/">Semantic versioning</a> is strongly recommended.</li> |
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<li>If there is a need of some marketing or cool versioning/codenames like Ultrasonic Umbrella or 2016, they should be used in addition to semantic versioning, not instead of it.</li> |
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<li>Once publicly released, the package must not be changed anymore – if a change (even a small fix) is needed, new version number must be assigned.</li> |
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<li>Incompatible changes must be planned and announced in advance. <!--Major/minor/patch numbers must be increased according to the Semantic versioning.--></li> |
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<li>upgrade scripts + upgrade documentation</li> |
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<h2>Compatible with others</h2> |
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<li>use open standards (protocols, formats) if they exist</li> |
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<li>define own open standards if needed |
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<li>also standards must be semantically versioned</li> |
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<li>should be written in machine readable format (WSDL, WADL, ASN.1, XSD, Diameter dictionary etc.) or at least formal language (Backus–Naur Form, EBNF etc.)</li> |
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<li>also configuration should have machine readable description and should be testable by executing a command</li> |
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<li>larger and multi-purpose software should be divided into smaller modules</li> |
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<li>modules must have defined dependencies (less = better)</li> |
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<li>particular modules should be compilable and executable separately</li> |
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<li>whole system should be compilable (buildable) with only selected modules – must not require compilation or even distribution of all modules, if they are not necessary</li> |
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<li>by configuration (RegExp, SQL, XSLT, XPath etc.)</li> |
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<li>by scripting (Guile, Bash, ECMA Script etc.)</li> |
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<li>and/or third-party plugins/modules |
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<li>it should be easy to create a third-party module and plug it in an existing system</li> |
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<li>dependencies needed to write an extension (i.e. header files, API classes/interfaces) should be as small as possible (do not require large codebase to write a mere plug-in)</li> |
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<li>there should be public directory of extensions/scripts</li> |
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<li>there should be automated build-time complex tests for the package – feed the program with sample input and verify expected output</li> |
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<li>there should be also automated runtime/postinstall tests – in order to verify that software was installed properly, all required dependencies are met and basic function is guaranteed – the program should report problem during its start (as a warning if it is not fatal), instead of unexpected failures during operation</li> |
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<li>unit tests are recommended for code parts that are internally complex (algorithms, important business logic) and have simple interfaces</li> |
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<li>correctness, safety and readability is prefered to performance</li> |
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<li>use strong data typing, declare preconditions and possible exceptions</li> |
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<li>data structures must be known and well documented – don't use undocumented map keys or properties</li> |
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<li>code, comments and analysis should be written in the same natural language</li> |
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<li>there should be a dictionary of used terms, so whole team and also users and customers will speak same language</li> |
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<li>authors should publish their public keys (GnuPG/OpenPGP or X.509)</li> |
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<li>description of the process of accepting external patches</li> |
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