README.md: add CodingGuidelines and a link for Translators

Before being told how to submit patches, new contributors need to be told how to code for, or how to contribute translation to, the project. Add references to the CodingGuidelines and the README document on localization. Also, split out the instructions to join the list and clarify that subscription is via the majordomo address. We use GitHub Markdown reference [2,3] with trailing empty square brackets, to match existing text in the file. On GitHub/GitLab pages, the footer references matching the empty [] are not shown on the web page. We could switch to using [text](url) form [1] if we wanted to, but that is not done as part of this patch. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#links [2] https://gist.github.com/ChrisTollefson/a3af6d902a74a0afd1c2d79aadc9bb3f#reference-links [3] https://github.github.com/gfm/#example-561 (and the para aboveit) Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Philip Oakley committed Jan 17, 2022 at 18:18 UTC 4ed7dfa7135385d29bc09358d0b1d373a7ef7c0e
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@@ -32,10 +32,16 @@ installed).
32 The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
33 mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
34 requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read
35 -[Documentation/SubmittingPatches][] for instructions on patch submission).
35 +[Documentation/SubmittingPatches][] for instructions on patch submission
36 +and [Documentation/CodingGuidelines][]).
37 +
38 +Those wishing to help with error message, usage and informational message
39 +string translations (localization l10) should see [po/README.md][]
40 +(a `po` file is a Portable Object file that holds the translations).
41 +
42 To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in
37 -the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
38 -available at <https://lore.kernel.org/git/>,
43 +the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org (not the Git list). The mailing
44 +list archives are available at <https://lore.kernel.org/git/>,
45 <http://marc.info/?l=git> and other archival sites.
46
47 Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to
@@ -64,3 +70,5 @@ and the name as (depending on your mood):
70 [Documentation/giteveryday.txt]: Documentation/giteveryday.txt
71 [Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt]: Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
72 [Documentation/SubmittingPatches]: Documentation/SubmittingPatches
73 +[Documentation/CodingGuidelines]: Documentation/CodingGuidelines
74 +[po/README.md]: po/README.md