1 files changed, 6 insertions, 47 deletions

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 37c963ed..0afa733b 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -14,15 +14,8 @@
     <pubdate>2013</pubdate>
     <title>Monitoring Plugins Development Guidelines</title>
 
-    <revhistory>
-       <revision>
-          <revnumber>1796</revnumber>
-          <date>2007-09-24 14:51:07 -0400 (Mon, 24 Sep 2007)</date>
-       </revision>
-    </revhistory>
-
         <copyright>
-                <year>2000 - 2013</year>
+                <year>2000 - 2024</year>
                 <holder>Monitoring Plugins Development Team</holder>
         </copyright>
 
@@ -34,7 +27,7 @@
     the plugin developers and encourage the standardization of the
     different kind of plugins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
 
-        <para>Monitoring Plugins Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2013
+        <para>Monitoring Plugins Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2024
         (Monitoring Plugins Team)</para>
 
         <para>Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
@@ -383,13 +376,6 @@
                 <para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Monitoring Plugins
                 performance data into graphs.</para>
                 </section>
-
-        <section><title>Translations</title>
-        <para>If possible, use translation tools for all output to respect the user's language
-                settings. See <xref linkend="translationsdevelopers"> for guidelines
-                for the core plugins.
-        </para>
-        </section>
 </section>
 
 <section id="SysCmdAuxFiles"><title>System Commands and Auxiliary Files</title>
@@ -727,19 +713,18 @@ setup the tests. Run "make test" to run all the tests.
 </section>
 <section id="CodingGuidelines"><title>Coding guidelines</title>
         <para>See <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html">GNU
-        Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.</para>
+        Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.
+        Some parts of the guidelines (namely and explicitly the coding style)
+        are not seen as best practice by us.</para>
         <section><title>C coding</title>
 
-        <para>Variables should be declared at the beginning of code blocks and
-        not inline because of portability with older compilers.</para>
-
         <para>You should use the type "bool" and its values
         "true" and "false" instead of the "int" type for booleans.
         </para>
         </section>
 
         <section><title>Crediting sources</title>
-        <para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the licence
+        <para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the license
         from your source allows this. Add a comment referencing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
         file, where you can put more detail about the source.</para>
         <para>For contributed code, do not add any named credits in the source code
@@ -756,32 +741,6 @@ setup the tests. Run "make test" to run all the tests.
         <para>All commits will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
         </para>
         </section>
-
-        <section id="translationsdevelopers"><title>Translations for developers</title>
-        <para>To make the job easier for translators, please follow these guidelines:</para>
-        <orderedlist>
-          <listitem><para>
-            Before creating new strings, check the po/monitoring-plugins.pot file to
-            see if a similar string
-            already exists
-          </para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>
-            For help texts, break into individual options so that these can be reused
-            between plugins
-          </para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>Try to avoid linefeeds unless you are working on a block of text</para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>Short help is not translated</para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>Long help has options in English language, but text translated</para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>"Copyright" kept in English</para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>Copyright holder names kept in original text</para></listitem>
-          <listitem><para>Debugging output does not need to be translated</para></listitem>
-        </orderedlist>
-        </section>
-
-        <section><title>Translations for translators</title>
-        <para>To create an up to date list of translatable strings, run: tools/gen_locale.sh</para>
-        </section>
-
 </section>
 
 <section id="SubmittingChanges"><title>Submission of new plugins and patches</title>