Recently I've merged a patch that used hyphens in an attribute name. I fixed it later, but turned out we don't document our preference which is camelCase. Suggested-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- I'm not sure this is the correct place to put this, suggestions welcome. docs/api_extension.html.in | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/api_extension.html.in b/docs/api_extension.html.in index 6c64e83314..d7696056ac 100644 --- a/docs/api_extension.html.in +++ b/docs/api_extension.html.in @@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ src/libvirt_public.syms </code></p> + <p> + Please note that single word names for attributes and elements is + preferred. But if you have to use two ore more words please join them in + camelCase style. + </p> + <p> This task is in many ways the most important to get right, since once the API has been committed to the repository, it's libvirt's policy -- 2.26.2