Pull request: all: add a changelog and a developer guide

Merge in DNS/adguard-home from 2294-changelog to master

Closes #2294.

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Author: Ainar Garipov <A.Garipov@AdGuard.COM>
Date:   Thu Nov 12 19:40:48 2020 +0300

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# AdGuard Home Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on
[*Keep a Changelog*](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
and this project adheres to
[Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
## [Unreleased]
### Added
- This changelog :-) (#2294).
- `HACKING.md`, a guide for developers.

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# AdGuardHome Developer Guidelines
As of **2020-11-12**, this document is still a work-in-progress. Some of the
rules aren't enforced, and others might change. Still, this is a good place to
find out about how we **want** our code to look like.
## Git
* Follow the commit message header format:
```none
pkg: fix the network error logging issue
```
Where `pkg` is the package where most changes took place. If there are
several such packages, just write `all`.
* Keep your commit messages to be no wider than eighty (**80**) columns.
* Only use lowercase letters in your commit message headers.
## Go
* <https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments>.
* <https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/TestComments>.
* <https://go-proverbs.github.io/>
* Avoid `init` and use explicit initialization functions instead.
* Avoid `new`, especially with structs.
* Document everything, including unexported top-level identifiers, to build
a habit of writing documentation.
* Don't use underscores in file and package names, unless they're build tags
or for tests. This is to prevent accidental build errors with weird tags.
* Don't write code with more than four (**4**) levels of indentation. Just
like [Linus said], plus an additional level for an occasional error check or
struct initialization.
* Eschew external dependencies, including transitive, unless
absolutely necessary.
* No `goto`.
* No shadowing, since it can often lead to subtle bugs, especially with
errors.
* Prefer constants to variables where possible. Reduce global variables. Use
[constant errors] instead of `errors.New`.
* Put comments above the documented entity, **not** to the side, to improve
readability.
* Use `gofumpt --extra -s`.
**TODO(a.garipov):** Add to the linters.
* Use linters.
* Use named returns to improve readability of function signatures.
* When a method implements an interface, start the doc comment with the
standard template:
```go
// Foo implements the Fooer interface for *foo.
func (f *foo) Foo() {
// …
}
```
* Write logs and error messages in lowercase only to make it easier to `grep`
logs and error messages without using the `-i` flag.
* Write slices of struct like this:
```go
ts := []T{{
Field: Value0,
// …
}, {
Field: Value1,
// …
}, {
Field: Value2,
// …
}}
```
[constant errors]: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/07/constant-errors
[Linus said]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/coding-style.html#indentation
## Text, Including Comments
* Text should wrap at eighty (**80**) columns to be more readable, to use
a common standard, and to allow editing or diffing side-by-side without
wrapping.
The only exception are long hyperlinks.
* Use U.S. English, as it is the most widely used variety of English in the
code right now as well as generally.
* Use double spacing between sentences to make sentence borders more clear.
* Use the serial comma (a.k.a. Oxford comma) to improve comprehension,
decrease ambiguity, and use a common standard.
* Write todos like this:
```go
// TODO(usr1): Fix the frobulation issue.
```
Or, if several people need to look at the code:
```go
// TODO(usr1, usr2): Fix the frobulation issue.
```
## Markdown
* **TODO(a.garipov):** Define our Markdown conventions.
## YAML
* **TODO(a.garipov):** Find a YAML formatter or write our own.
* All strings, including keys, must be quoted. Reason: the [NO-rway Law].
* Indent with two (**2**) spaces.
* No extra indentation in multiline arrays:
```yaml
'values':
- 'value-1'
- 'value-2'
- 'value-3'
```
* Prefer single quotes for string to prevent accidental escaping, unless
escaping is required.
[NO-rway Law]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359376