The difficulty with such "standards" and "best practices" is that what is standard can often be subjective. For example, under Indentation, they have:
For all code languages, we require indentation to be
done via soft tabs (using the space character). Hitting
Tab in your text editor shall be equivalent to four spaces.
Umm, who died and made you king? <tongue and cheek> I don't like using 4 spaces. I find it a waste of space, literally. In ruby community, 2 spaces is generally accepted.
With that said, it's probably not a bad idea to have discussions around such standards with the understanding that there may be more than one good way to skin a cat.
With that said, it's probably not a bad idea to have discussions around such standards with the understanding that there may be more than one good way to skin a cat.