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+Building
+========
+For build instructions see the README.md
+
+Pull requests
+=============
+Before filing a pull request run the tests:
+
+```sh
+ninja -C _build test
+```
+
+Use descriptive commit messages, see
+
+   https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/CommitMessages
+
+and check
+
+   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages
+
+for good examples.
+
+Coding Style
+============
+While much of the original codebase was written using [GNU's Coding Style][1],
+please try to follow this document for newly written code.
+For existing code you should probably try to not mix different code styles too much.
+This coding style is heavily inspired/copied from [phosh's Coding Style][2]
+which itself is mostly using [libhandy's Coding Style][3].
+
+These are the differences:
+
+- We're not picky about GTK+ style function argument indentation, that is
+  having multiple arguments on one line is also o.k.
+- For callbacks we additionally allow for the `on_<action>` pattern e.g.
+  `on_feedback_ended ()` since this helps to keep the namespace
+  clean.
+- Since we're not a library we usually use `G_DEFINE_TYPE` instead of
+  `G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE` (except when we need a deriveable
+  type) since it makes the rest of the code more compact.
+
+Source file layout
+------------------
+We use one file per GObject. It should be named like the GObject with
+the calls prefix, lowercase and '_' replaced by '-'. So a hypothetical
+`CallsThing` would go to `src/calls-thing.c`. The
+individual C files should be structured as (top to bottom of file):
+
+  - License boilerplate
+    ```c
+    /*
+     * Copyright (C) year copyright holder
+     *
+     * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3-or-later
+     * Author: you <youremail@example.com>
+     */
+    ```
+  - A log domain
+    ```C
+    #define G_LOG_DOMAIN "CallsThing"
+    ```
+    Usually just the GObject.
+  - `#include`s:
+    Calls ones go first, then glib/gtk, then generic C headers. These blocks
+    are separated by newline and each sorted alphabetically:
+
+    ```
+    #define G_LOG_DOMAIN "CallsThing"
+
+    #include "calls-things.h"
+    #include "calls-other-things.h"
+
+    #include <gio/gdesktopappinfo.h>
+    #include <glib/glib.h>
+
+    #include <math.h>
+    ```
+
+    This helps to detect missing headers in includes.
+  - docstring
+  - property enum
+    ```c
+    enum {
+      PROP_0,
+      PROP_FOO,
+      PROP_BAR,,
+      LAST_PROP
+    };
+    static GParamSpec *props[LAST_PROP];
+    ```
+  - signal enum
+    ```c
+    enum {
+      FOO_HAPPENED,
+      BAR_TRIGGERED,
+      N_SIGNALS
+    };
+    static guint signals[N_SIGNALS] = { 0 };
+    ```
+  - type definitions
+    ```c
+    typedef struct _CallsThing {
+      GObject parent;
+
+      ...
+    } CallsThing;
+
+    G_DEFINE_TYPE (CallsThing, calls_thing, G_TYPE_OBJECT)
+    ```
+  - private methods and callbacks (these can also go at convenient
+    places above `calls_thing_constructed ()`
+  - `calls_thing_set_properties ()`
+  - `calls_thing_get_properties ()`
+  - `calls_thing_constructed ()`
+  - `calls_thing_dispose ()`
+  - `calls_thing_finalize ()`
+  - `calls_thing_class_init ()`
+  - `calls_thing_init ()`
+  - `calls_thing_new ()`
+  - Public methods, all starting with the object name(i.e. `calls_thing_`)
+
+  The reason public methods go at the bottom is that they have declarations in
+  the header file and can thus be referenced from anywhere else in the source
+  file.
+  
+  Try to avoid forward declarations where possible.
+[1]: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting
+[2]: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/blob/master/HACKING.md#coding-style
+[3]: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/blob/master/HACKING.md#coding-style