We allow other companies to override our standards

[antdking]

big one might be rubocop rules

[booyaa]

Examples:

• Linters based on GOV.UK's style guide

[antdking]

It might be worth encouraging others to use standard approaches to overriding rules:
https://rubocop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration/#inheritance

This has the advantage of being able to be used by editors, and has less of a learning curve (only have to know rubocop, not other tools).

[davidwinter]

I think this needs to be explicitly defined as overridden by another companies established code style guide (Gov.UK being a great example), so that it can't be misinterpreted as just overriding in the code sense that they use # rubocop disable...