# google/eng-practices

Google's Engineering Practices documentation

Repository: https://github.com/google/eng-practices
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/eng-practices
Homepage: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-09-19T05:27:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2555, "days_push": 713, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 23305, forks 2293 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:34.626549+00:00)

## What it is
Google's public Engineering Practices documentation, primarily containing its Code Review Guidelines for reviewers and change authors. It is a set of reference documents, not software, shared under a CC-By 3.0 license.

## Use cases
- learn how to do effective code reviews
- guidelines for writing good pull requests
- establish code review standards for my team
- what should a code reviewer look for
- best practices for responding to review feedback
- onboard engineers to code review culture

## When to choose
- you want authoritative, battle-tested guidance on code review from Google
- you are defining review policies or onboarding docs for an engineering team
- you need a shared vocabulary (CL, LGTM) and review etiquette reference

## When to avoid
- you need executable tooling or automation rather than written guidelines
- you want language-specific style guides (this covers general practices only)
- you need up-to-date content on modern review tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, code-review, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, documentation, version-control, tutorials
- platform: -
- tags: code-review-guidelines, engineering-practices, best-practices, google, web-server

## Member repositories
- google/eng-practices (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:34.626549+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:45.331662+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/eng-practices (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:34.626549+00:00, sha fc8e999b9e95)
  - homepage: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:50.315189+00:00, sha 5e48bc245285)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.