Rules and Guidelines

The code style guidelines that must be met for any contribution to KiCad’s application codebase.

The guidelines describing how git commit messages should be formatted.

The stable release policy provides guidelines for stable releases provided by the KiCad project.

The code design guidelines are rules that must be met for any contribution to KiCad’s application code base.

The style guidelines that should be used for visual asset (icon, etc.) changes or additions.

The guidelines describing how the lead developer team interacts with each other.

Rules on how the user interface elements should be implemented.

Anti-pattern guidelines for writing code for the KiCad project.