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authorYong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>2016-04-11 17:22:48 -0500
committerBryce Harrington <bryce@bryceharrington.org>2016-04-13 12:35:00 -0700
commita50668559cc91b434177315004635d9e6e32d48b (patch)
tree3d2602ecb105d7821631bb8748061b1ba39c8437
parent82bb922f5b497b06cab175d0281ef8d5e8009878 (diff)
readme: Correct spelling and grammar
Signed-off-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com> Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 324f873..da1f1d5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
Wayland protocols
-----------------
-wayland-protocols contains Wayland protocols that adds functionality not
-available in the Wayland core protocol. Such protocols either adds
-completely new functionality, or extends the functionality of some other
+wayland-protocols contains Wayland protocols that add functionality not
+available in the Wayland core protocol. Such protocols either add
+completely new functionality, or extend the functionality of some other
protocol either in Wayland core, or some other protocol in
wayland-protocols.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ A deprecated protocol is a protocol that has either been replaced by some
other protocol, or declared undesirable for some other reason. No more
changes will be made to a deprecated protocol.
-Depending on which of the above state the protocol is in, the protocol
+Depending on which of the above states the protocol is in, the protocol
is placed within the toplevel directory containing the protocols with the
same state. Stable protocols are placed in the +stable/+ directory,
unstable protocols are placed in the +unstable/+ directory, and
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Unstable naming convention
Unstable protocols have a special naming convention in order to make it
possible to make discoverable backward incompatible changes.
-An unstable protocol has at least two versions; the major version which
-represents backward incompatible changes, and the minor versions which
+An unstable protocol has at least two versions: the major version, which
+represents backward incompatible changes, and the minor version, which
represents backward compatible changes to the interfaces in the protocol.
The major version is part of the XML file name, the protocol name in the
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ During the development of a new protocol it is possible that backward
incompatible changes are needed. Such a change needs to be represented
in the major and minor versions of the protocol.
-Assuming a backward incompatible change is needed, the procedure how to
+Assuming a backward incompatible change is needed, the procedure for how to
do so is the following:
. Make a copy of the XML file with the major version increased by +1+.