# Documentation guidelines

This document defines the rules used to write documentation in order to make it more consistent.

This documentation is a living document and so are it's rules; you are free to propose changes but in the meantime, please stick to them.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119/).

## File naming

Files SHOULD be named using [kebab-case](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/snake-case-vs-camel-case-vs-pascal-case-vs-kebab-case-whats-the-difference/#kebab-case).

Their names should be meaningful and SHOULD not conflict with other files in other directories:

> Example: this document is named `docs/guidelines/documentation-guidelines.md` instead of `docs/guidelines/documentation.md` because it could cause confusion with `docs/documentation.md`.

## Documentation

When writing documentation, the author should have in mind it's target audience: people with varying technical skills and backgrounds, fluency in peer-to-peer-specific terms and mental ability. The documentation should therefore be acessible and usefule to most people interested in building, using and contributing to Tilde Friends.

### Terminology

`Tilde Friends` refers to the projectas a whole. This can be abbreviated to `TF`.

`tildefriends` refers to the program.

### Style guide

TODO

## License

As per the rest of the code in this repository, the documentation is shared under the [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT/) license.