Software Community Convention

A Software Community Convention is a community-driven standard that establishes software community practices through collaborative consensus.

• AKA: Community Standard, Open Convention, Collaborative Standard, Community Practice, Consensus Convention.
• Context:
  • It can typically emerge from Software Community Convention Collaboration among software community convention practitioners.
  • It can typically evolve through Software Community Convention Feedback from software community convention users.
  • It can typically promote Software Community Convention Interoperability across software community convention implementations.
  • It can typically facilitate Software Community Convention Knowledge Sharing within software community convention ecosystems.
  • It can typically establish Software Community Convention Best Practices for software community convention common problems.
  • It can typically reduce Software Community Convention Fragmentation in software community convention approaches.
  • It can typically accelerate Software Community Convention Adoption through software community convention simplification.
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  • It can often inspire Software Community Convention Innovation in software community convention tools.
  • It can often create Software Community Convention Network Effects via software community convention widespread use.
  • It can often influence Software Community Convention Industry Practices through software community convention popularization.
  • It can often enable Software Community Convention Portability between software community convention platforms.
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  • It can range from being an Informal Software Community Convention to being a Formalized Software Community Convention, depending on its software community convention specification level.
  • It can range from being an Emerging Software Community Convention to being an Established Software Community Convention, depending on its software community convention maturity.
  • It can range from being a Niche Software Community Convention to being a Universal Software Community Convention, depending on its software community convention adoption scope.
  • It can range from being a Technical Software Community Convention to being a Process Software Community Convention, depending on its software community convention focus area.
  • It can range from being a Voluntary Software Community Convention to being a De Facto Software Community Convention, depending on its software community convention enforcement.
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  • It can be documented in Software Community Convention RFCs for software community convention proposal.
  • It can be implemented by Software Community Convention Tools for software community convention automation.
  • It can be maintained by Software Community Convention Working Groups for software community convention evolution.
  • It can be promoted through Software Community Convention Conferences for software community convention awareness.
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• Example(s):
  • Version Control Conventions, such as:
    • Conventional Commits for commit message format.
    • Git Flow Convention for branch management.
    • Semantic Versioning for version numbering.
  • Documentation Conventions, such as:
    • README Convention for project documentation.
    • Keep a Changelog for release history.
    • JSDoc Convention for code documentation.
  • File Format Conventions, such as:
    • EditorConfig Convention for editor settings.
    • Package.json Convention for node.js projects.
    • Community Agent Convention like AGENTS.md convention.
  • Development Practice Conventions, such as:
    • Code Review Convention for pr process.
    • Issue Template Convention for bug reporting.
    • Contributing Guide Convention for open source contribution.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Official Standard, which is formally standardized by standards body.
  • Proprietary Convention, which is vendor-controlled rather than community-driven.
  • Internal Policy, which is organization-specific rather than community-wide.
  • Legal Requirement, which is legally mandated rather than voluntarily adopted.
  • Academic Theory, which is theoretically proposed rather than practically emerged.
• See: Open Source Community, Software Standard, Community Agent Convention, Industry Best Practice, Collaborative Development, De Facto Standard, Technical Specification, Community Consensus.

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