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 * Bugfixes
 * Performance improvements
-* Features which are likely to be useful to the majority of Liquid users
+* Features that are likely to be useful to the majority of Liquid users
 
 ## Things we won't merge
 
-* Code which introduces considerable performance degrations
-* Code which touches performance critical parts of Liquid and comes without benchmarks
-* Features which are not important for most people (we want to keep the core Liquid code small and tidy)
-* Features which can easily be implemented on top of Liquid (for example as a custom filter or custom filesystem)
-* Code which comes without tests
-* Code which breaks existing tests
+* Code that introduces considerable performance degrations
+* Code that touches performance-critical parts of Liquid and comes without benchmarks
+* Features that are not important for most people (we want to keep the core Liquid code small and tidy)
+* Features that can easily be implemented on top of Liquid (for example as a custom filter or custom filesystem)
+* Code that does not include tests
+* Code that breaks existing tests
 
 ## Workflow
 
 * Fork the Liquid repository
 * Create a new branch in your fork
-* If it makes sense, add tests for your code and run a performance benchmark
-* Make sure all tests pass
+* If it makes sense, add tests for your code and/or run a performance benchmark
+* Make sure all tests pass (`bundle exec rake`)
 * Create a pull request
-* In the description, ping one of [@boourns](https://github.com/boourns), [@fw42](https://github.com/fw42), [@camilo](https://github.com/camilo), [@dylanahsmith](https://github.com/dylanahsmith), or [@arthurnn](https://github.com/arthurnn) and ask for a code review.