- Further corrections.

README.rst

@@ -3,14 +3,16 b''
 Welcome to RhodeCode (RhodiumCode) documentation!
 =================================================
 
-``RhodeCode`` (formerly hg-app) is Pylons framework based Mercurial repository 
-browser/management tool with build in push/pull server and full text search.
-It works on http/https, has build in permission/authentication system with 
-ability to auth via LDAP. It's similar in some parts to github or bitbucket, 
-but it's suppose to run as standalone hosted application, it's open source 
-and donation ware and focuses more on providing customized, self administered 
-interface for Mercurial(and soon GIT) repositories. It's powered by vcs_ 
-library that me and Lukasz Balcerzak created to handle many various version 
+``RhodeCode`` (formerly hg-app) is a Pylons framework based Mercurial repository 
+browser/management tool with a built in push/pull server and full text search.
+It works on http/https and has a built in permission/authentication system with 
+the ability to authenticate via LDAP.
+
+RhodeCode is similar in some respects to github or bitbucket, 
+however RhodeCode can be run as standalone hosted application on your own server.  It is open source 
+and donation ware and focuses more on providing a customized, self administered 
+interface for Mercurial(and soon GIT) repositories. RhodeCode is powered by a vcs_ 
+library that Lukasz Balcerzak and I created to handle multiple different version 
 control systems.
 
 RhodeCode uses `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`_
@@ -20,8 +22,8 b' RhodeCode demo'
 
 http://hg.python-works.com
 
-The default access is anonymous but You can login to administrative account
-using those credentials
+The default access is anonymous but you can login to an administrative account
+using the following credentials:
 
 - username: demo
 - password: demo
@@ -29,7 +31,7 b' using those credentials'
 Source code
 -----------
 
-The most up to date sources can be obtained from my own RhodeCode instance
+The latest source for RhodeCode can be obtained from my own RhodeCode instance
 https://rhodecode.org 
 
 Rarely updated source code and issue tracker is available at bitbcuket
@@ -41,23 +43,23 b' Installation'
  Please visit http://packages.python.org/RhodeCode/installation.html
 
 
-Features
---------
+RhodeCode Features
+------------------
 
-- Has it's own middleware to handle mercurial_ protocol request. 
-  Each request can be logged and authenticated. Runs on threads unlikely to 
-  hgweb. You can make multiple pulls/pushes simultaneous. Supports http/https 
+- Has it's own middleware to handle mercurial_ protocol requests. 
+  Each request can be logged and authenticated.
+- Runs on threads unlike hgweb. You can make multiple pulls/pushes simultaneous. Supports http/https 
   and LDAP
 - Full permissions (private/read/write/admin) and authentication per project. 
   One account for web interface and mercurial_ push/pull/clone operations.
-- Mako templates let's you customize look and feel of application.
-- Beautiful diffs, annotations and source codes all colored by pygments.
+- Mako templates let's you customize the look and feel of the application.
+- Beautiful diffs, annotations and source code browsing all colored by pygments.
 - Mercurial_ branch graph and yui-flot powered graphs with zooming and statistics
 - Admin interface with user/permission management. Admin activity journal, logs
   pulls, pushes, forks, registrations and other actions made by all users.
-- Server side forks, it's possible to fork a project and hack it free without
+- Server side forks. It is possible to fork a project and modify it freely without
   breaking the main repository.
-- Full text search powered by Whoosh on source codes, and file names.
+- Full text search powered by Whoosh on the source files, and file names.
   Build in indexing daemons, with optional incremental index build
   (no external search servers required all in one application)
 - Setup project descriptions and info inside built in db for easy, non 
@@ -77,43 +79,46 b' Features'
 Incoming / Plans
 ----------------
 
-- project grouping
+- Project grouping
 - User groups/teams
-- ssh based authentication with server side key management
-- code review (probably based on hg-review)
-- full git_ support, with push/pull server (currently in beta tests)
-- redmine integration
-- public accessible activity feeds
-- commit based build in wiki system
-- clone points and cloning from remote repositories into RhodeCode
-- more statistics and graph (global annotation + some more statistics)
-- other cools stuff that i can figure out (or You can help me figure out)
+- SSH based authentication with server side key management
+- Code review (probably based on hg-review)
+- Full git_ support, with push/pull server (currently in beta tests)
+- Redmine integration
+- Public accessible activity feeds
+- Commit based built in wiki system
+- Clone points and cloning from remote repositories into RhodeCode
+- More statistics and graph (global annotation + some more statistics)
+- Other advancements as development continues (or you can of course make additions and or requests)
 
 License
 -------
 
-``RhodeCode`` is released under GPL_ license.
+``RhodeCode`` is released under the GPL_ license.
 
 
 Mailing group Q&A
 -----------------
 
-join the `Google group <http://groups.google.com/group/rhodecode>`_
+Join the `Google group <http://groups.google.com/group/rhodecode>`_
 
-open an issue at `issue tracker <http://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/issues>`_
+Open an issue at `issue tracker <http://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/issues>`_
 
-join #rhodecode on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net)
+Join #rhodecode on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net)
 or use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=rhodecode for web access to irc.
 
 Online documentation
 --------------------
 
- Online documentation for current version is available at
+Online documentation for the current version of RhodeCode is available at
  http://packages.python.org/RhodeCode/.
- You may also build documentation for yourself - go into ``docs/`` and run::
+You may also build the documentation for yourself - go into ``docs/`` and run::
 
    make html
 
+(You need to have sphinx installed to build the documentation. If you don't
+have sphinx installed you can install it via the command: ``easy_install sphinx``)
+ 
 .. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
 .. _python: http://www.python.org/
 .. _django: http://www.djangoproject.com/

docs/contributing.rst

@@ -1,17 +1,19 b''
 .. _contributing:
 
-Contributing in RhodeCode
+Contributing to RhodeCode
 =========================
 
-If You would like to contribute to RhodeCode, please contact me, any help is
-greatly appreciated.
+If you would like to contribute to RhodeCode, please contact me, any help is
+greatly appreciated!
 
-Preferable method Would be to fork RhodeCode repository from bitbucket
-https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode and then open a pull request.
-This way it's easier for me to merge.
+Could I request that you make your source contributions by first forking the
+RhodeCode repository on bitbucket
+https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode and then make your changes to
+your forked repository. Finally, when you are finished making a change, please
+send me a pull request.
 
-To run RhodeCode in a development version You always need to install tip
-version of RhodeCode and VCS library.
+To run RhodeCode in a development version you always need to install the tip
+version of RhodeCode and the VCS library.
 
-
-Thank You.
+| Thank you for any contributions!
+|  Marcin
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docs/enable_git.rst

@@ -4,9 +4,9 b' Enabling GIT support (beta)'
 ===========================
 
 
-Git support in RhodeCode 1.1 was disabled due to some instability issues, but
-If You would like to test it fell free to re-enable it. To enable GIT just
-uncomment git line in rhodecode/__init__.py file
+Git support in RhodeCode 1.1 was disabled due to current instability issues. However,
+if you would like to test git support please feel free to re-enable it. To re-enable GIT support just
+uncomment the git line in the file rhodecode/__init__.py
 
 .. code-block:: python
  
@@ -16,6 +16,7 b' uncomment git line in rhodecode/__init__'
    }
 
 .. note::
-   Please note that it's not fully stable and it might crash (that's why it 
-   was disabled), so be careful about enabling git support. Don't use it in 
-   production !
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+   Please note that the git support provided by RhodeCode is not yet fully
+   stable and RhodeCode might crash while using git repositories. (That is why
+   it is currently disabled.) Thus be careful about enabling git support, and
+   certainly don't use it in a production setting!
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docs/installation.rst

@@ -3,24 +3,24 b''
 Installation
 ============
 
-``RhodeCode`` is written entirely in Python, but in order to use it's full
-potential there are some third-party requirements. When RhodeCode is used 
-together with celery You have to install some kind of message broker,
+``RhodeCode`` is written entirely in Python. In order to gain maximum performance
+there are some third-party you must install. When RhodeCode is used 
+together with celery you have to install some kind of message broker,
 recommended one is rabbitmq_ to make the async tasks work.
 
-Of course RhodeCode works in sync mode also, then You don't have to install
-any third party apps. Celery_ will give You large speed improvement when using
-many big repositories. If You plan to use it for 7 or 10 small repositories, it
-will work just fine without celery running.
+Of course RhodeCode works in sync mode also and then you do not have to install
+any third party applications. However, using Celery_ will give you a large speed improvement when using
+many big repositories. If you plan to use RhodeCode for say 7 to 10 small repositories, RhodeCode
+will perform perfectly well without celery running.
    
-After You decide to Run it with celery make sure You run celeryd using paster
+If you make the decision to run RhodeCode with celery make sure you run celeryd using paster
 and message broker together with the application.   
 
-Install from Cheese Shop
+Installing RhodeCode from Cheese Shop
 ------------------------
-Rhodecode requires python 2.x greater than version 2.5
+Rhodecode requires python version 2.5 or higher.
 
-Easiest way to install ``rhodecode`` is to run::
+The easiest way to install ``rhodecode`` is to run::
 
     easy_install rhodecode
 
@@ -28,8 +28,8 b' Or::'
 
     pip install rhodecode
 
-If you prefer to install manually simply grab latest release from
-http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rhodecode, decompress archive and run::
+If you prefer to install RhodeCode manually simply grab latest release from
+http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rhodecode, decompress the archive and run::
 
     python setup.py install
 
@@ -38,15 +38,13 b' Step by step installation example'
 ---------------------------------
 
 
-- Assuming You have installed virtualenv_ create one using. 
-
-::
+- Assuming you have installed virtualenv_ create a new virtual environment using virtualenv:: 
 
     virtualenv --no-site-packages /var/www/rhodecode-venv
 
 
 .. note:: Using ``--no-site-packages`` when generating your
-   virtualenv is *very important*. This flag provides the necessary
+   virtualenv is **very important**. This flag provides the necessary
    isolation for running the set of packages required by
    RhodeCode.  If you do not specify ``--no-site-packages``,
    it's possible that RhodeCode will not install properly into
@@ -56,48 +54,42 b' Step by step installation example'
 
 
 - this will install new virtualenv_ into `/var/www/rhodecode-venv`. 
-- Activate the virtualenv_ by running 
-
-::
+- Activate the virtualenv_ by running::
 
     source /var/www/rhodecode-venv/bin/activate
 
-.. note:: If you're on UNIX, *do not* use ``sudo`` to run the
+.. note:: If you're using UNIX, *do not* use ``sudo`` to run the
    ``virtualenv`` script.  It's perfectly acceptable (and desirable)
    to create a virtualenv as a normal user.
      
-- Make a folder for rhodecode somewhere on the filesystem for example 
-
-::
+- Make a folder for rhodecode somewhere on the filesystem for example::
 
     mkdir /var/www/rhodecode
   
     
-- Run this command to install rhodecode
-
-::
+- Run this command to install rhodecode::
 
     easy_install rhodecode 
 
-- this will install rhodecode together with pylons
-  and all other required python libraries
+- This will install rhodecode together with pylons and all other required python
+  libraries
 
 Requirements for Celery (optional)
 ----------------------------------
 
 .. note::
    Installing message broker and using celery is optional, RhodeCode will
-   work without them perfectly fine.
+   work perfectly fine without them.
 
 
 **Message Broker** 
 
 - preferred is `RabbitMq <http://www.rabbitmq.com/>`_
-- possible other is `Redis <http://code.google.com/p/redis/>`_
+- A possible alternative is `Redis <http://code.google.com/p/redis/>`_
 
-For installation instructions You can visit: 
-http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/index.html
-It's very nice tutorial how to start celery_ with rabbitmq_
+For installation instructions you can visit: 
+http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/index.html.
+This is a very nice tutorial on how to start using celery_ with rabbitmq_
 
 
 You can now proceed to :ref:`setup`

docs/setup.rst

@@ -31,7 +31,7 b' entering this "root" path ``setup-app`` '
 for the initial admin account which ``setup-app`` sets up for you.
 
 - The ``setup-app`` command will create all of the needed tables and an admin
-  account. When choosing a root path You can either use a new empty location, or a
+  account. When choosing a root path you can either use a new empty location, or a
   location which already contains existing repositories. If you choose a location
   which contains existing repositories RhodeCode will simply add all of the
   repositories at the chosen location to it's database. (Note: make sure you
@@ -51,7 +51,7 b' You are now ready to use RhodeCode, to r'
 - Use the admin account you created above when running ``setup-app`` to login to the web app.
 - The default permissions on each repository is read, and the owner is admin. 
   Remember to update these if needed.
-- In the admin panel You can toggle ldap, anonymous, permissions settings. As
+- In the admin panel you can toggle ldap, anonymous, permissions settings. As
   well as edit more advanced options on users and repositories
 
 Try copying your own mercurial repository into the "root" directory you are
@@ -102,7 +102,7 b' Setting up Whoosh full text search'
 ----------------------------------
 
 Starting from version 1.1 the whoosh index can be build by using the paster
-command ``make-index``. To use ``make-index`` You must specify the configuration
+command ``make-index``. To use ``make-index`` you must specify the configuration
 file that stores the location of the index, and the location of the repositories
 (`--repo-location`).
 

docs/statistics.rst

@@ -4,29 +4,30 b''
 Statistics
 ==========
 
-RhodeCode statistics system is heavy on resources, so in order to keep a 
-balance between the usability and performance statistics are cached inside db
-and are gathered incrementally, this is how RhodeCode does this:
+The RhodeCode statistics system makes heavy demands of the server resources, so
+in order to keep a balance between usability and performance, the statistics are
+cached inside db and are gathered incrementally, this is how RhodeCode does
+this:
 
 With Celery disabled
 ++++++++++++++++++++
 
-- on each first visit on summary page a set of 250 commits are parsed and
-  updates statistics cache
-- this happens on each single visit of statistics page until all commits are
-  fetched. Statistics are kept cached until some more commits are added to
-  repository, in such case RhodeCode will fetch only the ones added and will
-  update it's cache.
+- On each first visit to the summary page a set of 250 commits are parsed and
+  updates statistics cache.
+- This happens on each single visit to the statistics page until all commits are
+  fetched. Statistics are kept cached until additional commits are added to the
+  repository. In such a case RhodeCode will only fetch the new commits when
+  updating it's cache.
 
 
 With Celery enabled
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
-- on first visit on summary page RhodeCode will create task that will execute
-  on celery workers, that will gather all stats until all commits are parsed,
-  each task will parse 250 commits, and run next task to parse next 250 
-  commits, until all are parsed.
+- On the first visit to the summary page RhodeCode will create tasks that will
+  execute on celery workers. This task will gather all of the stats until all
+  commits are parsed, each task will parse 250 commits, and run the next task to
+  parse next 250 commits, until all of the commits are parsed.
 
 .. note::
-   In any time You can disable statistics on each repository in repository edit
-   form in admin panel, just uncheck the statistics checkbox.
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+   At any time you can disable statistics on each repository via the repository
+   edit form in the admin panel. To do this just uncheck the statistics checkbox.
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docs/upgrade.rst

@@ -3,10 +3,13 b''
 Upgrade
 =======
 
-Upgrade from Cheese Shop
+Upgrading from Cheese Shop
 ------------------------
 
-Easiest way to upgrade ``rhodecode`` is to run::
+.. note::
+   Firstly, it is recommended that you **always** perform a database backup before doing an upgrade.
+
+The easiest way to upgrade ``rhodecode`` is to run::
 
  easy_install -U rhodecode
 
@@ -15,39 +18,31 b' Or::'
  pip install --upgrade rhodecode
 
 
-Then make sure You run from the installation directory
-
-::
+Then make sure you run the following command from the installation directory::
  
  paster make-config RhodeCode production.ini
  
-This will display any changes made from new version of RhodeCode To your
-current config. And tries to do an automerge. It's always better to do a backup
-of config file and recheck the content after merge.
+This will display any changes made by the new version of RhodeCode to your
+current configuration. It will try to perform an automerge. It's always better
+to make a backup of your configuration file before hand and recheck the content after the automerge.
 
 .. note::
    The next steps only apply to upgrading from non bugfix releases eg. from
    any minor or major releases. Bugfix releases (eg. 1.1.2->1.1.3) will 
-   not have any database schema changes or whoosh library updates
+   not have any database schema changes or whoosh library updates.
 
-It's also good to rebuild the whoosh index since after upgrading the whoosh 
-version there could be introduced incompatible index changes.
+It is also recommended that you rebuild the whoosh index after upgrading since the new whoosh 
+version could introduce some incompatible index changes.
 
 
-The last step is to upgrade the database. To do this simply run
-
-::
+The final step is to upgrade the database. To do this simply run::
 
     paster upgrade-db production.ini
  
-This will upgrade schema, as well as update some default on the database,
-always recheck the settings of the application, if there are no new options
+This will upgrade the schema and update some of the defaults in the database,
+and will always recheck the settings of the application, if there are no new options
 that need to be set.
 
-.. note::
-   Always perform a database backup before doing upgrade.
-
-
 
 .. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv  
 .. _python: http://www.python.org/