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 Making Trivial Changes
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-For changes of a trivial nature to comments and documentation, it is not always
+For trivial changes to comments and documentation, it is not always
 necessary to create a new ticket in JIRA.  In this case, it is appropriate to
 start the first line of a commit with '(doc)' instead of a ticket number.