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@@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ interesting and understandable.
Present and imperative tense: not past.
+ 'Relays', not 'servers' or 'nodes' or 'Tor relays'.
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+ "Stop FOOing", not "Fix a bug where we would FOO".
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Try not to let any given section be longer than about a page. Break up
long sections into subsections by some sort of common subtopic. This
guideline is especially important when organizing Release Notes for