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doc/developer: misc minor fixes 

Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde@gmail.com>
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@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ consult @url{https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html}.
@section Contributing
There are 3 ways by which code gets into ffmpeg.
There are 3 ways by which code gets into FFmpeg.
@itemize @bullet
@item Submitting Patches to the main developer mailing list
see @ref{Submitting patches} for details.
@item Submitting patches to the main developer mailing list.
See @ref{Submitting patches} for details.
@item Directly committing changes to the main tree.
@item Committing changes to a git clone, for example on github.com or
gitorious.org. And asking us to merge these changes.
@ -397,8 +397,8 @@ or obfuscates the code.
Make sure that no parts of the codebase that you maintain are missing from the
@file{MAINTAINERS} file. If something that you want to maintain is missing add it with
your name after it.
If at some point you no longer want to maintain some code, then please help
finding a new maintainer and also don't forget updating the @file{MAINTAINERS} file.
If at some point you no longer want to maintain some code, then please help in
finding a new maintainer and also don't forget to update the @file{MAINTAINERS} file.
@end enumerate
We think our rules are not too hard. If you have comments, contact us.
@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ First, read the @ref{Coding Rules} above if you did not yet, in particular
the rules regarding patch submission.
When you submit your patch, please use @code{git format-patch} or
@code{git send-email}. We cannot read other diffs :-)
@code{git send-email}. We cannot read other diffs :-).
Also please do not submit a patch which contains several unrelated changes.
Split it into separate, self-contained pieces. This does not mean splitting
@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ If the patch fixes a bug, did you provide a verbose analysis of the bug?
If the patch fixes a bug, did you provide enough information, including
a sample, so the bug can be reproduced and the fix can be verified?
Note please do not attach samples >100k to mails but rather provide a
URL, you can upload to ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org
URL, you can upload to ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org.
@item
Did you provide a verbose summary about what the patch does change?
@ -599,10 +599,10 @@ Lines with similar content should be aligned vertically when doing so
improves readability.
@item
Consider to add a regression test for your code.
Consider adding a regression test for your code.
@item
If you added YASM code please check that things still work with --disable-yasm
If you added YASM code please check that things still work with --disable-yasm.
@item
Make sure you check the return values of function and return appropriate
@ -667,7 +667,6 @@ Once you have a working fate test and fate sample, provide in the commit
message or introductory message for the patch series that you post to
the ffmpeg-devel mailing list, a direct link to download the sample media.
@subsection Visualizing Test Coverage
The FFmpeg build system allows visualizing the test coverage in an easy
@ -806,7 +805,7 @@ with a news entry for the website.
Publish the news entry.
@item
Send announcement to the mailing list.
Send an announcement to the mailing list.
@end enumerate
@bye