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Develop coding style guide

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Description

It would be useful to have a coding style guide. This could cover information about formatting as well as style (do loops vs arrays).

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No files, tests, or documentation entry points are named. Start by surveying the repository's Fortran source and existing contributor documentation to identify current formatting and style conventions. Done means publishing an agreed coding style guide that covers formatting and choices such as do loops versus arrays.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fortran
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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