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+Most developers find Linux coding style easy to read, and there is
+really no reason to reinvent this practise, so procps-ng goes along
+with others.
+
+http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/CodingStyle
+
+In addition to Linux coding style this project has few additional
+wishes to contributors.
+
+* Many small patches are favoured over one big. Break down is done on
+  basis of logical functionality; for example #endif mark ups,
+  compiler warning and exit codes fixes all should be individual
+  small patches.
+
+* Use 'FIXME: ' in code comments, manual pages, autotools files,
+  scripts and so on to indicate something is wrong.  The reason we do
+  is as simple as being able to find easily where problem areas are.
+
+* In writing arithmetic comparisons, use "<" and "<=" rather than
+  ">" and ">=".  For some justification, read this:
+  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3903/focus=4126
+
+* Be nice to translators. Don't change translatable strings if you
+  can avoid it.  If you must rearrange individual lines (e.g., in
+  multi-line --help strings), extract and create new strings, rather
+  than extracting and moving into existing blocks.  This avoids
+  making unnecessary work for translators.