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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([222.254.211.218]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-39ae3c6f337sm4845289a91.16.2026.09.02.01.44.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Nguyen Duc Thinh To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Weijie Yuan , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nguyen Duc Thinh Subject: [PATCH v2 0/5] Documentation: process: Clean up grammar, tone, Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:43:58 +0700 Message-ID: <20260902084430.17248-1-ducthinh100812@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This patch series performs a thorough pass across several files in the Linux kernel process documentation directory. 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(Apologies, the v1 submission suffered a terminal wildcard argument error that accidentally truncated the transmission after 1/5). Nguyen Duc Thinh (5): Documentation: process: Clean up grammar, tone, and contractions in core files Documentation: process: Clean up grammar and tone in next guide files Documentation: process: Refine language, tone, and grammar in subsequent files Documentation: process: Refine language, tone, and grammar in subsequent files Documentation: process: Clean up grammar and tone across multiple files Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 18 ++--- Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 22 +++--- Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst | 14 ++-- Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst | 48 ++++++------- Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst | 34 +++++----- Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst | 16 ++--- Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst | 32 ++++----- Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst | 4 +- Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst | 20 +++--- Documentation/process/backporting.rst | 68 +++++++++---------- Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst | 54 +++++++-------- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 20 +++--- .../code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst | 14 ++-- Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst | 2 +- Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 12 ++-- Documentation/process/conclave.rst | 6 +- .../process/contribution-maturity-model.rst | 4 +- Documentation/process/cve.rst | 8 +-- Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 14 ++-- Documentation/process/development-process.rst | 6 +- Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 32 ++++----- 21 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-) -- 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)