doc: contributing: add an 'other guidelines' section for soft guideli…

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* doc: contributing: add an 'other guidelines' section for soft guidelines
- these guidelines are only relevant for a small fraction of additions but would significantly increase the number of requirements in the pull request template, so add them in a separate document
- move the guideline about providing a list of differences for forks to this document
- ref. #33 (comment)

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Co-authored-by: Rabenherz112 <[email protected]>

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -14,5 +14,4 @@ To ensure your Pull Request is dealt with swiftly, please check the following (c
 - [ ] Any software project you are adding to the list is actively maintained.
 - [ ] Any software project you are adding was first released more than 4 months ago.
 - [ ] Any software project you are adding has working installation instructions.
-- [ ] If you are adding software forked from another active project, please provide/link to a clear list of differences between both.
 - [ ] You understand that your Pull Request will be merged ~1 week after approval, to allow for further comments if needed.

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -84,7 +84,19 @@ To do this from Github's web interface:
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-### Other
+### Other guidelines
+
+In addition to guidelines listed in the [Pull Request template](.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md), these general rules help keep the list consistent:
+- Please avoid redundant terms in project descriptions, such as _open-source_, _free_, _self-hosted_... as their presence on awesome-selfhosted already implies this.
+- Prefer shorter forms for descriptions - for example, `Minimalist text adventure game` would be preferred to `A minimalist text adventure game` or `$PROJECT is a minimalist text adventure game`).
+- If the the project has no documentation in English, please add `(documentation in $LANGUAGE)` at the end of the description.
+- If the project is presented as an alternative to another service or application, please mention it as `(alternative to $PRODUCT1, $PRODUCT2)` at the end of the description.
+- If you are adding software forked from another active project, please provide/link to a clear list of differences between both.
+- If the project is forked from another project, please add `(fork of $PROJECT)` at the end of the description.
+- If the project distributes a single static binary, please add the programming language in which it is written.
+
+
+### Other operations
 
 **Rename a tag/category:** the tag must be renamed in the appropriate `tags/mytag.yml` file. All references to it must be updated in `tags/*.yml` and `software/*.yml`.