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docs: use US English spelling

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Project
rockcraft
Number
#1162
Type
pull request
State
merged
Author
gcomneno
Labels
documentation
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Current evaluation

Merged into main as commit bdada046: PR #1162 replaced British spellings (chiselling, behaviour, etc.) with US English across 19 doc files, kept identifiers/paths intact, and added redirects for the old chisel paths. Closes #1045.

Resolution: closed resolved

Reason: PR #1162 was approved and merged as commit bdada046 after the author rebased and fixed stale redirect entries; the merged change resolves issue #1045 ('docs: British spelling is still used'), which is now closed. Validation included make docs and make lint-codespell, with the previously failing docs-spread-tests rerun green after the redirect fix.

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Issue body

## Summary - update visible documentation text to use US English spelling - keep anchors, file names, paths, and artifact names unchanged where they are part of identifiers or examples Closes #1045

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
stealth/space-bunny-alpha — closed resolved Merged into main as commit bdada046: PR #1162 replaced British spellings (chiselling, behaviour, etc.) with US English across 19 doc files, kept identifiers/paths intact, and added redirects for the old chisel paths. Closes #1045.
stealth/space-bunny-alpha — closed resolved Merged canonical/rockcraft#1162 as bdada046, replacing British spellings with US English across 19 documentation files, preserving identifiers, and updating redirects; it closes #1045.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b — — Merged after updating documentation to use US English spelling, closing issue #1045. The changes were approved, rebased to main, stale redirects updated, and CI checks passed prior to merge.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Merged after updating documentation to US English spelling. Author rebased on main, fixed stale redirects, and maintainer approved the changes. Closes #1045.

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Related work

  • Related To: canonical/rockcraft#1045 (confidence 97%)

    Tracking issue 'docs: British spelling is still used', now closed by this merge; a follow-up question about Markdown files was left out of scope, so some British spellings may remain in non-doc .md files.

Related issues

Issue Project State Summary Similarity
#1286 docs: Update redirects from chiselling to chiseling rockcraft merged Merged PR #1286 by asanvaq adds redirects for the chiselling -> chiseling how-to landing page and two guides, fixing links left broken by the US-English spelling PR #1162. Docs-only change (+3 lines).
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#5573 docs: switch from UK to US spellings snapcraft merged Merged as commit 3af48bf02: PR #5573 standardized 14 snapcraft doc files on US spellings (+21/-21), for Open Documentation Academy task #244. Approved by 2 reviewers after the author signed the CCLA; init.rst was skipped as a false flag.
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#1045 docs: British spelling is still used rockcraft closed Fixed by merged PR canonical/rockcraft#1162 (commit bdada046), which converted 19 documentation files from British to Canonical US English.
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#5204 style: UK to US English snapcraft merged Merged style-only PR renaming UK spellings to US: 'artefact' -> 'artifact' (commit cfdf3b1af) and 'organise' -> 'organize' (commit 263cb5a67) across 10 files.
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