Add new COMMIT_NOTES document

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

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+A quick list of rules for committing stuff into netfilter git:
+
+- Always add an appropriate description, in git format
+  (i.e. first line is a summary)
+
+- Please try to include references to bugs when the description does not
+  include total discussion coverage or when the bug report is external to
+  netfilter-devel, e.g.
+  "Closes: netfilter bugzilla #123", or
+  "Reference: http://bugs.{debian,gentoo}.org/..."
+
+- If you touch any parts of libxtables (xtables.c, include/xtables.h.in),
+  make sure the so-version is updated _appropriately_ (i.e. read the
+  libtool manual about Versioning:: first if need be) in configure.ac.
+  Adding fields to a struct always entails a vcurrent bump.