Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2026-01-28 2000 UTC [#3573908]

Hello all, it’s time for the fortnightly coding standards meeting.

This meeting:
➤ Is for anyone interested in the Drupal coding standards.
➤ Is held on the #coding standards channel in Drupal Slack (see www.drupal.org/slack for information).
➤ Usually happens fortnightly. Alternating between Tuesday 2100 UTC and Wednesday 0900 UTC.
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Current ping list: @catch, @longwave, @quietone
@dww, @borisson_ @longwave @Björn Brala, @Aaron McHale, @Alex Skrypnyk, @Kingdutch

0️⃣ Who is here today? Comment in the thread to introduce yourself. We’ll keep the meeting open for 24 hours to allow for all time zones.

quietone	Welcome back after the long holiday!
longwave	hi!

1️⃣ What topics do you want to discuss? Post in this thread and we’ll open threads for them as appropriate.

2️⃣ Action items

2️⃣.1️⃣ Approve minutes for previous meeting(s)

quietone

https://www.drupal.org/project/coding_standards/issues/3554913

2️⃣.2️⃣ Issues to go to core committer meeting

2️⃣.3️⃣ TBD

3️⃣ Update CSS coding standards to include PostCSS and Drupal 10

quietone

There is an MR that needs work

4️⃣ Allow omitting @var, @param and @return tags or their descriptions if the variable name and type is enough

quietone	What is the next step here?
catch	I think it is at 'review by committee' or "Needs announcement for final discussion"

5️⃣ Remove the requirement for doxygen for test methods

quietone	Is there an issue for Coder for this?
quietone	This needs a change record. (edited)
longwave	i don't see a coder issue for this one

6️⃣ Use of "e.g." and "i.e."

quietone	This was discussed last meeting.
quietone	I agree with borisson_ that this is not something that should be enforced one way or the other in Coding Standards.
quietone	For one, the Drupal Content style guide uses them. And while they may be used incorrectly, it is not difficult to understand in context.
longwave	agree this is not a coding standards problem
quietone	There is a comment on the issue that using the full text would be helpful for non native English speakers.
longwave	it is also widely used at present (720 "e.g." in core) but changing it feels a bit like busy work
quietone	Yes, let's not do busy work. There is little to gain by making this change.