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 # Homebrew/homebrew-core Merge Checklist
 
-The following checklist is intended to help maintainers to decide on
+The following checklist is intended to help maintainers decide on
 whether to merge, request changes or close a PR. It also brings more
 transparency for contributors in addition to
 [Acceptable Formulae](Acceptable-Formulae.md) requirements.
 
-This is a guiding principle. As a maintainer, you can make a call on either
+This is a guiding principle. As a maintainer, you can make a call to either
 request changes from a contributor or help them out based on their comfort and
 previous contributions. Remember, as a team we
 [Prioritise Maintainers Over Users](Maintainers-Avoiding-Burnout.md) to avoid
 burnout.
 
-This is a more practical checklist, it should be used after you get familiar with
+This is a more practical checklist; it should be used after you get familiar with
 [Maintainer Guidelines](Maintainer-Guidelines.md).
 
 ## Checklist
 
 Check for:
 
-- previously opened active PRs, we would like to be fair to contributors who came first
-- patches/`inreplace` that been applied to upstream and can be removed
-- comments in formula around `url`, we do skip some version (for example [vim](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/359dbb190bb3776c4d6a1f603a271dd8f186f077/Formula/vim.rb#L4) or [v8](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/359dbb190bb3776c4d6a1f603a271dd8f186f077/Formula/v8.rb#L4))
+- previously opened active PRs, as we would like to be fair to contributors who came first
+- patches/`inreplace` that have been applied to upstream and can be removed
+- comments in formula around `url`, as we do skip some versions (for example [vim](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/359dbb190bb3776c4d6a1f603a271dd8f186f077/Formula/vim.rb#L4) or [v8](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/359dbb190bb3776c4d6a1f603a271dd8f186f077/Formula/v8.rb#L4))
 - vendored resources that need updates (for example [emscripten](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/57126ac765c3ac5201ce53bcdebf7a0e19071eba))
 - vendored dependencies (for example [certbot](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/42966/files))
 - stable/announced release
   - some teams use odd minor release number for tests and even for stable releases
-  - other teams drop new version with minor release 0 but promote it to stable only after few minor releases
-  - if the software uses only hosted version control (such as github, gitlab or bitbucket), the release should be tagged and if upstream marks latest/pre-releases, PR must use latest
-- does changelog mention addition/removal of dependency and it's addressed in the PR
+  - other teams drop new version with minor release 0 but promote it to stable only after a few minor releases
+  - if the software uses only hosted version control (such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket), the release should be tagged and if upstream marks latest/pre-releases, PR must use latest
+- does changelog mention addition/removal of dependency and is it addressed in the PR
   - does formula depend on versioned formula (for example `python@2`, `go@1.10`, `erlang@17`) that can be upgraded
 - commits
   - contain one formula change per commit
-  - version update follows preferred message format for simple version updates `foobar 7.3`
+    - ask author to squash
+    - rebase during merge
+  - version update follows preferred message format for simple version updates: `foobar 7.3`
   - other fixes format is `foobar: fix flibble matrix`
-  - you can use `--bump` flag for `brew pull` in case PR have single commit but the wrong message
+  - you can use `--bump` flag for `brew pull` in case the PR have a single commit but the wrong message
 - bottle block is not removed
+
   Suggested reply:
   ```
   Please keep bottle block in place, [@BrewTestBot](https://github.com/BrewTestBot) takes care of it.
   ```
-- is there are test block for other than checking version or printing help? Consider asking to add one
+- is there a test block for other than checking version or printing help? Consider asking to add one
 - if CI failed
   - due to test block - paste relevant lines and add `test failure` label
   - due to build errors - paste relevant lines and add `build failure` label
-  - due to other formulas need revision bumps - suggest to use the following command:
+  - due to other formulae needing revision bumps - suggest to use the following command:
     ```
     # in this example PR is for `libuv` formula and `urbit` needs revision bump
     brew bump-revision --message 'for libuv' urbit
     ```
+    - make sure it is one commit per revision bump
 - if CI is green and formula `bottle :unneeded` you can merge it through GitHub UI
 - if CI is green and bottles need to be pulled, use: `brew pull --bottle $PR_ID`
 - don't forget to thank the contributor
   - celebrate the first-time contributors
-- suggest to use `brew bump-formula-pr` next time if this was not a case
+- suggest to use `brew bump-formula-pr` next time if this was not the case