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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ development.
What's where
============
-After you've run checked out mediagoblin and followed the virtualenv
+After you've run checked out MediaGoblin and followed the virtualenv
instantiation instructions, you're faced with the following directory
tree::
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ As you can see, all the code for GNU MediaGoblin is in the
Here are some interesting files and what they do:
-:routing.py: maps url paths to views
-:views.py: views handle http requests
+:routing.py: maps URL paths to views
+:views.py: views handle HTTP requests
:forms.py: wtforms stuff for this submodule
You'll notice that there are several sub-directories: tests,
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ templates, auth, submit, ...
``templates`` holds all the templates for the output.
-``auth`` and ``submit`` are modules that enacpsulate authentication
+``auth`` and ``submit`` are modules that encapsulate authentication
and media item submission. If you look in these directories, you'll
see they have their own ``routing.py``, ``view.py``, and forms.py in
addition to some other code.
@@ -123,15 +123,15 @@ Software Stack
for unit tests
* `virtualenv <http://www.virtualenv.org/>`_: for setting up an
- isolated environment to keep mediagoblin and related packages
+ isolated environment to keep MediaGoblin and related packages
(potentially not required if MediaGoblin is packaged for your
distro)
* Data storage
* `SQLAlchemy <http://sqlalchemy.org/>`_: SQL ORM and database
- interaction library for Python. Currently we support sqlite and
- postgress as backends.
+ interaction library for Python. Currently we support SQLite and
+ PostgreSQL as backends.
* Web application
@@ -158,10 +158,10 @@ Software Stack
* `Markdown (for python) <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown>`_:
implementation of `Markdown <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>`_
- text-to-html tool to make it easy for people to write richtext
+ text-to-html tool to make it easy for people to write rich text
comments, descriptions, and etc.
- * `lxml <http://lxml.de/>`_: nice xml and html processing for
+ * `lxml <http://lxml.de/>`_: nice XML and HTML processing for
python.
* Media processing libraries
@@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ Software Stack
future, probably audio too.
* `chardet <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet>`_: (Optional, for
- ascii art hosting sites only) Used to make ascii art thumbnails.
+ ASCII art hosting sites only) Used to make ASCII art thumbnails.
* Front end
- * `JQuery <http://jquery.com/>`_: for groovy JavaScript things
+ * `jQuery <http://jquery.com/>`_: for groovy JavaScript things