[gimp-web/testing] news: some fixes and rewording in the 2.10.2 release news



commit 722127f5c8d621fff1f7a9d34dd40f37b3750e7f
Author: Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>
Date:   Sun May 20 19:49:53 2018 +0200

    news: some fixes and rewording in the 2.10.2 release news

 content/news/2018-05_GIMP-2.10.2_Released/index.md |   40 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/content/news/2018-05_GIMP-2.10.2_Released/index.md 
b/content/news/2018-05_GIMP-2.10.2_Released/index.md
index f89268f..b66932e 100644
--- a/content/news/2018-05_GIMP-2.10.2_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2018-05_GIMP-2.10.2_Released/index.md
@@ -7,15 +7,15 @@ Summary: GIMP 2.10.2 released (bug fixes, HEIF support and new filters)
 Status: draft
 
 It has barely been a month since we released GIMP 2.10.0, and the
-version 2.10.2 is already there!
-As expected, its main purpose is fixing the various bugs and issues
-which can be expected from a major release.
+first bugfix version 2.10.2 is already there!
+Its main purpose is fixing the various bugs and issues
+which were to be expected after the 2.10.0 release.
 
-**Therefore 43 bugs have been fixed in less than a month!**
+**Therefore, 43 bugs have been fixed in less than a month!**
 
 Yet as you may recall, we have also been relaxing the policy for new
 features, and this is the first time we will be applying this policy
-with features in a minor release! How cool is that?
+with features in a stable micro release! How cool is that?
 
 *For a complete list of changes please see [NEWS](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/NEWS).*
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Thanks to Dirk Farin for the HEIF plug-in.
 
 2 new filters have been added, based off GEGL operations:
 
-**Spherize** filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap, based off
+**Spherize** filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap, based on the
   "*gegl:spherize*" operation.
 
 <figure>
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ Spherize filter in GIMP 2.10.2.
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
 
-**Recursive Transform** filter to create Droste effect, based off
+**Recursive Transform** filter to create a Droste effect, based on the
   "gegl:recursive-transform" operation.
 
 <figure>
 <img src="{attach}gimp-2-10-2-recursive-transform.png" alt="Recursive Transform filter">
 <figcaption>
-Recursive transform filter in GIMP 2.10.2, with a custom interface on canvas.
+Recursive transform filter in GIMP 2.10.2, with a custom on-canvas interface.
 <br/>
 <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/philipphaegi/39057406754";>Original image
 CC-BY by Philipp Haegi</a>, with graphics overlay by Patrick David.
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ had a few issues with single-window screenshots on Windows operating
 systems, when the target window was hidden behind other windows, or
 partly off-screen, as well as when display scaling was activated.
 
-All these issues have been fixed by the new contributor Gil Eliyahu.
+All these issues have been fixed by our new contributor Gil Eliyahu.
 
 ## Histogram computation improved
 
@@ -78,12 +78,12 @@ As you know, we now have a debug dialog which may pop-up when crashes
 occur, with debug information. This dialog opens our bug tracker in a
 browser.
 
-We realized that a lot of bugs are getting to us from third-party
-builds, and a significant part of the bugs are package-specific. In
-order to relieve a bit our burden, since we are a very small team,
-we would appreciate if packagers could make a first filtering of bugs,
-reporting us what looks like actual core bugs, and taking care of
-packaging issues.
+We realized that we get a lot of bugs from third-party builds, and a
+significant part of the bugs are package-specific. In order to relieve
+that burden a bit (because we are a very small team), we would
+appreciate if packagers could make a first triaging of bugs, reporting
+to us what looks like actual GIMP bugs, and taking care of their own
+packaging issues themselves.
 
 This is why our `configure` script now has the `--with-bug-report-url`
 option, allowing you to set your own bug tracker web URL. This way, when
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ package bug tracker instead.
 Since 2006, our work format, XCF, is
 [documented](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/devel-docs/xcf.txt)
 thanks to the initial contribution of Henning Makholm. We have recently
-updated this document to integrate all the changes in the format since
-GIMP 2.10.0 release.
+updated this document to integrate all the changes to the format since
+the GIMP 2.10.0 release.
 
 Any third-party application which wishes to be able to read XCF files is
 welcome to get information from this updated documentation. The [git log
@@ -116,9 +116,9 @@ we can fix it.
 # GIMP 3 is already on its way…
 
 While GIMP 2.10.0 was still hot, barely released, our developers started
-working on GIMP 3 like crazy. One of the main task is cleaning the code
-out of the many deprecated pieces of code or data, as well as code made
-useless by the switch to GTK+3.
+working on GIMP 3 like crazy. One of the main tasks is cleaning the code
+from the many deprecated pieces of code or data, as well as from code made
+useless by the switch to GTK+ 3.x.
 
 The deletion is really going full-speed, with more than [200
 commits](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/?h=gtk3-port) made in


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