General doc grammar and typos

dev/building.rst

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Prerequisites
 -  Go **1.3** or higher
 -  Git
 
-If you're not a Go developer since before, the easiest way to get going
+If you're not already a Go developer, the easiest way to get going
 is to download the latest version of Go as instructed in
 http://golang.org/doc/install and ``export GOPATH=~``.
 

dev/debugging.rst

@@ -44,21 +44,21 @@ facilities are something like this:
 -  ``beacon`` sends and receives UDP broadcasts used by the local
    discovery system. Debugging here will show which interfaces and
    addresses are selected for broadcasts, etc.
--  ``discover`` sends and received local discovery packets. Debugging
+-  ``discover`` sends and receives local discovery packets. Debugging
    here will output the parsed packets, nodes that get registered etc.
 -  ``files`` keeps track of lists of files with metadata and figures out
    which is the newest version of each.
 -  ``net`` shows connection attempts, incoming connections, and the low
    level error when connection attempts fail.
 -  ``model`` is the largest chunk of the system; this is where pulling
-   of out of date files happen, indexes sent and received, and incoming
+   of out of date files happens, indexes are sent and received, and incoming
    requests for file chunks are logged.
 -  ``scanner`` is the local filesystem scanner. Debugging here will
    output information about changed and unchanged files.
 -  ``upnp`` is the upnp talker.
 -  ``xdr`` is the low level protocol encoder. Debugging here will output
    all bytes sent/received over the sync connection. Very verbose.
--  ``all`` simply enabled debugging of all facilities.
+-  ``all`` simply enables debugging of all facilities.
 
 Enabling any of the facilities will also change the log format to
 include microsecond timestamps and file names plus line numbers. This

dev/device-ids.rst

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ It could be mitigated in several ways:
 
 -  Announcements to the global announce server could be done using TLS,
    so the server calculates the device ID based on the certificate
-   instead of trusting to the device to tell the truth.
+   instead of trusting the device to tell the truth.
 
 -  The user could statically configure IP or host name for the devices.
 

dev/infrastructure.rst

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Runs Jenkins and does the core and Android builds, Ubuntu Linux.
 OSX and Windows Build Slaves
 ----------------------------
 
-Runs Jenkins build slaves and run builds and tests on the Mac and
+Runs Jenkins build slaves and runs builds and tests on the Mac and
 Windows operating systems. Hosted by :user:`Zillode`.
 
 APT Server

dev/intro.rst

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ lib/
       The local and global device discovery -- maps device IDs to IP and port tuples.
 
    events/
-      The event subsystem, handles emitting of and subscribing to events accross the other packages.
+      The event subsystem, handles emitting of and subscribing to events across the other packages.
 
    fnmatch/
       Matches strings to glob patterns, used by the ignore package.

dev/issues.rst

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ protocol
 Milestone
 ---------
 
-There are milestones for major and sometimes minor versions. An issues
+There are milestones for major and sometimes minor versions. An issue
 being assigned to a milestone means it is a blocker - the release can't
 be made without the issue being closed. Issues not assigned to a
 milestone can be handled whenever.

dev/release-creation.rst

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Tag". Set the "Release title" to the same version as the tag, paste in
 the changelog from above, and publish the release.
 
 On the signing server, logged in via ssh, run ``sign-upload-release``. This
-will create download the build artefacts from Jenkins, sign all the binaries,
+will download the build artefacts from Jenkins, sign all the binaries,
 create the sha1sum and sha256sum files, sign them with the release GPG key and
 upload the whole shebang to Github.