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 ## Development
 
-For developping new features, write a Ticket, so others know what you are doing.
+For developing new features, write a Ticket, so others know what you are doing.
 For development create a fork, and use the master as base. Create a Pull request for each fix.
 Do not create big pull requests, as long as you don't break anything features also can be
 merged, even if they are not 100% finished.