Comment by parpfish
21 hours ago
That meeting sounds like it would be the most bikeshed-y thing imaginable.
What you actually need to do is have a manager lead assert that it’s happening in a top down way and just run the formatter with the defaults. Let people argue case-by-case on what to change after that.
The point is that you get the (inevitable) bikeshedding done once, everyone feels "involved", and then you have a style guide that is both a style guide and a "crystallized argument" - so when someone wants to change something, they know that dozens of people already signed off on it and do they really want to push against that. (So covering new things is still lower friction...)