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 - New features are added to the develop branch, please base your feature-add pull requests on that branch.
 
 ### Code style
-- Please use 4 soft spaces per indent level.
+- Please use 2 soft spaces per indent level.
 - Take a look at the coding style used in codebird.php and apply the same convention to your contributed code.
 The styleguide is also available online at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php.