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 Please note that this repository is participating in a study into sustainability
- of open source projects. Data will be gathered about this repository for
- approximately the next 12 months, starting from 2021-06-11.
+of open source projects. Data will be gathered about this repository for
+approximately the next 12 months, starting from 2021-06-11.
 
 Data collected will include number of contributors, number of PRs, time taken to
- close/merge these PRs, and issues closed.
+close/merge these PRs, and issues closed.
 
 For more information, please visit
 [our informational page](https://sustainable-open-science-and-software.github.io/) or download our [participant information sheet](https://sustainable-open-science-and-software.github.io/assets/PIS_sustainable_software.pdf).