From fd8fdee5bf32deeeab8a2cba3d132d950d4cf03b 2014-12-21 00:31:57
From: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org>
Date: 2014-12-21 00:31:57
Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite text to not sound so BDFL-ish.

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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index d3bab69dc4d953d7209eb2900d8f60362ef2c67d..c0ea971aaf0d40fbcc8f935662d5adbf6c5ba18f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ Those who are comfortable with Gitorious can submit
 See the section "Merge Request and Patch Workflow" below for more information
 on the details of doing that.
 
-However, the editor-in-chief do not want lack of Git and/or LaTeX knowledge
-to create an entry barrier for potential contributors.  Therefore, the
-editor-in-chief happily accepts contributions and ideas via the following
-means:
+However, lack of Git and/or LaTeX knowledge is *not a barrier* for
+contribution to this project.  Useful contributions will be accepted by the
+following means as well:
 
   * Patches posted to
     [the mailing list](http://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss).