diff --git a/CODING b/CODING
index 80561242..a8e21eee 100644
--- a/CODING
+++ b/CODING
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ Guidelines
    the book. The payoff comes later.
 13. Same thing goes for premature optimizations. Knuth and Dijkstra
    are watching over your shoulder. :)
-14. Always run the unit tests before committing changes to the
-   mainline development branch in svn trunk.
 
 
 Unit testing