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 Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull
-requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, and
-remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
+requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing
+other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
 lots of money.
 
 ### Automated Testing