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 # Release
 
-A guide for creating a release.
+A guide for deploying a release to the production environment.
 
 ## Background
-This project release guide is based on 
+This project's release guide is based on:
 * [git-flow](https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/)
 * [Semantic Versioning (semver)](https://semver.org/)
 * [npm-version](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/version)