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@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ Sphinx is a maintained by a group of volunteers. We value every contribution!
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* The mailing list for development is at `Google Groups
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-* There is also #sphinx-doc IRC channel on `freenode `_.
+* There is also the #sphinx-doc IRC channel on `freenode
+ `_.
For more about our development process and methods, see the :doc:`devguide`.