Not sure the right way to make suggestions without strictly committing to an edit for a PR. So filing this issue with comments on permalinked source. Happy to file a PR with accepted suggestions/adjustments, starting here for discussion.
Maybe drop "small"? I worry it might diminish the work that got completed, some of which was low-hanging fruit but some of which I would shy from calling "small", though it is definitely "relatively small" compared to those tasks where significant headway was made without reaching the finish line. How about
Several tasks were completed during the sprint itself. Some larger projects saw significant progress as well.
including the R Blog post on reviewing bugs, the useR! 2021 tutorial on analysing bugs/contributing patches, and the useR 2021! tutorial on translating messages in R.
Or
including the useR! 2021 tutorials on analysing bugs/contributing patches and translating messages and the R Blog post on reviewing bugs.
Grammar feels a bit off in the late part of the sentence, what about
People new to this were pointed to the R-admin manual, the R Dev Guide, and a prototype GitHub Codespace for building R which was demonstrated in one of the contributor office hours[^footnote].
[^footnote] GitHub Codespaces provide hosted Docker images so that anybody can use the same environment from anywhere, see https://github.com/features/codespaces.
Probably not clear what a component is? Maybe drop the phrase entirely?
The instance was extended so that it not only covers base R (messages, warnings, errors and the Windows GUI), but also the Mac GUI and recommended packages.
May not be clear to the audience "recommended" is a specific phrase here. Maybe "Recommended-priority packages" is better, or "Recommended-priority packages like Matrix" for even more context?
Not sure the right way to make suggestions without strictly committing to an edit for a PR. So filing this issue with comments on permalinked source. Happy to file a PR with accepted suggestions/adjustments, starting here for discussion.
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/dc996608da51f8b7fa3acf1fd8d2aaf04440b92b/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L11
Maybe drop "small"? I worry it might diminish the work that got completed, some of which was low-hanging fruit but some of which I would shy from calling "small", though it is definitely "relatively small" compared to those tasks where significant headway was made without reaching the finish line. How about
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/main/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L13-L15
A bit repetitive "development"/"develop", "contributors"/"contribution". Maybe
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/dc996608da51f8b7fa3acf1fd8d2aaf04440b92b/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L57
Here and a sporadically below, the line is very wide, so it's harder to read in plaintext. It doesn't matter for the rendered version.
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/dc996608da51f8b7fa3acf1fd8d2aaf04440b92b/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L60
Nit: elsewhere, numbers are digits, here it's spelled out. For consistency 'seven' -> '7'.
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/main/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L133-L135
Nit: the two 'and' are a bit hard to parse, maybe
Or
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/dc996608da51f8b7fa3acf1fd8d2aaf04440b92b/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L144
Does Coventry use the Oxford comma? :)
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/dc996608da51f8b7fa3acf1fd8d2aaf04440b92b/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L144-L147
Grammar feels a bit off in the late part of the sentence, what about
I would change 'this was followed' -> 'followed'. Possibly a UK/US thing.
https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/dc996608da51f8b7fa3acf1fd8d2aaf04440b92b/r_project_sprint/report/r-project-sprint-2023-report.Rmd#L168
Add a phrase on "what is translation memory?"
Probably not clear what a component is? Maybe drop the phrase entirely?
May not be clear to the audience "recommended" is a specific phrase here. Maybe "Recommended-priority packages" is better, or "Recommended-priority packages like Matrix" for even more context?
Typo: 'sprint'