From cd9a9908caf02cfa6dd9102e80058b833d6d177f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Divyanshu Agrawal Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:45:23 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Fix some small errors in CONTRIBUTING.md. Some of these errors were identified using Grammarly, and others while reading. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index eb0c6600bc..b53218866a 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ to: * Pros and cons: What are the pros and cons of Zulip for your organization, and the pros and cons of other products you are evaluating? * Features: What are the features that are most important for your - organization? In the best case scenario, what would your chat solution do + organization? In the best-case scenario, what would your chat solution do for you? * Onboarding: If you remember it, what was your impression during your first few minutes of using Zulip? What did you notice, and how did you feel? Was @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ While each third-party program has its own rules and requirements, the Zulip community's approaches all of these programs with these ideas in mind: * We try to make the application process as valuable for the applicant as - possible. Expect high quality code reviews, a supportive community, and + possible. Expect high-quality code reviews, a supportive community, and publicly viewable patches you can link to from your resume, regardless of whether you are selected. * To apply, you'll have to submit at least one pull request to a Zulip @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ important parts of the project. We hope you apply! ### Google Summer of Code -The largest outreachy program Zulip participates in in GSoc (14 +The largest outreach program Zulip participates in is GSoC (14 students in 2017; 11 in 2018; 17 in 2019). While we don't control how many slots Google allocates to Zulip, we hope to mentor a similar number of students in future summers. @@ -279,8 +279,8 @@ number of students in future summers. If you're reading this well before the application deadline and want to make your application strong, we recommend getting involved in the community and fixing issues in Zulip now. Having good contributions -and building a reputation for doing good work is best way to have a -strong application. About half of Zulip's GSoC students for Summer +and building a reputation for doing good work is the best way to have +a strong application. About half of Zulip's GSoC students for Summer 2017 had made significant contributions to the project by February 2017, and about half had not. Our [GSoC project ideas page][gsoc-guide] has lots more details on how @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ have been using Zulip for a while and want to contribute more. about a technical aspect of Zulip can be a great way to spread the word about Zulip. -We also occasionally [publish](http://blog.zulip.org/) longer form +We also occasionally [publish](http://blog.zulip.org/) long-form articles related to Zulip. Our posts typically get tens of thousands of views, and we always have good ideas for blog posts that we can outline but don't have time to write. If you are an experienced writer