RFR: Copy edits, terminology fixes, and factual corrections to the README and the introduction

Mark Reinhold mr at openjdk.java.net
Fri Jun 19 23:38:31 UTC 2020


On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:02:48 GMT, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jwilhelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> - Change “OpenJDK community” to “OpenJDK Community”
>> - Omit needless words
>> - s/like/such as/g
>> - Fix various typos and grammatical errors
>> - Tone down “contains the defacto standard” to “suggests”
>> - The OpenJDK Community was launched in November 2006, not May 2007
>
> Thank you for these changes!  Just a minor typo to fix before pushing.

2020/6/18 21:03:01 -0700, notifications at github.com:
> @JesperIRL approved this pull request.
> 
> Thank you for these changes!  Just a minor typo to fix before pushing.
> 
>> what this guide has to offer. Still, the Developers' Guide should work as a source of knowledge also
> -for experienced contributors. This means that any descriptions in the Guide should be self-contained
> -or have explicit references to any information the reader is expected to already know. The information
> -should also be structured in such a way that it's easy to find details for any process, so that
> -one who already knows the big picture can quickly find that particular detail that was forgotten.
> +for experienced contributors. Any descriptions in the Guide should thus be self-contained
> +or have explicit references to any information thata the reader is expected to already know. The information
> 
> "thata" -> "that" ?

Thanks -- will fix.

- Mark

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/18


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