mesh [jgnat]

Remember to change the status, when you upload new code.

<div id="node-<?php print $node->nid; ?>" class="node<?php if ($sticky) { 
  print ' sticky'; 
} ?><?php if (!$status) { 
print ' node-unpublished'; } 
?>">

The code can be better written as

<div id="node-<?php print $node->nid; ?>" class="node<?php if ($sticky): ?> sticky<?php endif; ?>  <?php if (!$status): ?>node-unpublished<?php endif; ?>

Adding a new line character will probably result in having a new line in the middle of the ID declaration.

The delimiter used at the end of the instructions should not be omitted in lines like print $terms, which should be written as print $terms;.

I forgot to report that files available from third-party sites should not be committed in CVS. In this case, it is true for some JavaScript files.

The rest is fine.

The only way is to report to the users they need to download a file, where they can download it, and where they need to put it.

The file should be named README.txt.

You first need to create the project page for the theme, and then you can create the branches.
If you have problems on creating it, I can create it for you.