Coding conventions

We need to develop some conventions that will make collaboration smoother.

Let’s discuss these on the newsgroup and add/remove items.

if you want your new work to be included by others – keep your branch up-to date as much as possible or send a patch by email.
keep your master branch (or whichever branch you want others to pull into the master) free of experimental features and local modifications
discuss experimental features on the newsgroup before moving them onto the master branch
have all text files in UNIX mode (use dos2unix if necessary)
if you change templates – make sure they validate with http://validator.w3.org before publishing your changes
check validation of new translation messages containing html markup
do not copy-paste code and templates

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