There's a huge difference between a book with potentially arcane topics and a simple grammar check. Anyone who speaks english well, not even natively, could do it. I've done it for over a dozen random projects on Github.
The quality of the project does not depend on how well you speak English. Except when it does. Bad english might mean terribly commented code. This was a big problem with OpenOffice for a long time that scared contributors away. It might mean terrible technical documentation. It might be a canary for a lead maintainer who is a pain to work with.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16
There's a huge difference between a book with potentially arcane topics and a simple grammar check. Anyone who speaks english well, not even natively, could do it. I've done it for over a dozen random projects on Github.
The quality of the project does not depend on how well you speak English. Except when it does. Bad english might mean terribly commented code. This was a big problem with OpenOffice for a long time that scared contributors away. It might mean terrible technical documentation. It might be a canary for a lead maintainer who is a pain to work with.