The goals for each of these guides are:

to produce correct code that appears clean, consistent, and readable,
to allow developers to create patches that conform to a standard, and
to eliminate these issues as points of future contention.

Some of these rules may be ignored in the spirit of these stated goals; however, such exceptions should be fairly rare.

The following style guides describe a formatting, naming, and other conventions that should be followed when writing or changing the Papaprazzi code or documentation:

Feedback would be welcome to improve the Paparazzi guidelines.