Remove the validation step's types

src/NuGet.Services.Contracts/Validation/IValidationIssue.cs

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 namespace NuGet.Services.Validation
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// A validation issue encountered during a validation.
+    /// A validation issue encountered during a validation step.
     /// </summary>
     public interface IValidationIssue
     {

src/NuGet.Services.Contracts/Validation/ValidationStatus.cs

@@ -4,28 +4,28 @@
 namespace NuGet.Services.Validation
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// The status of an asynchronous validation.
+    /// The status of a single validation step.
     /// </summary>
     public enum ValidationStatus
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// The validation has not started yet.
+        /// The validation step has not started yet.
         /// </summary>
         NotStarted = 0,
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The validation is incomplete and should therefore be in progress.
+        /// The validation step is incomplete and should therefore be in progress.
         /// </summary>
         Incomplete = 1,
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The validation has succeeded and no validation errors have occurred. Any transient errors that may have
-        /// occurred during the validation have been resolved.
+        /// The validation step has succeeded and no validation errors have occurred. Any transient errors that may have
+        /// occurred during the validation step have been resolved.
         /// </summary>
         Succeeded = 2,
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The validation has failed. This could be a failure in initiating the validation, the validation has timed
+        /// The validation step has failed. This could be a failure in initiating the validation, the validation has timed
         /// out, or the logic of the validation has discovered an issue with the entity that is being validated.
         /// </summary>
         Failed = 3,

src/NuGet.Services.Validation/Entities/PackageValidation.cs

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 namespace NuGet.Services.Validation
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// Represents a single validation performed on a package. The associated package is implied via the validations's
+    /// Represents a single validation step performed on a package. The associated package is implied via the validations's
     /// <see cref="NuGetGallery.PackageValidationSet"/>.
     /// </summary>
     public class PackageValidation

src/NuGet.Services.Validation/Entities/ValidatorStatus.cs

@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@
 namespace NuGet.Services.Validation
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// The status of an <see cref="IValidator"/>'s validation of a package. This should be used
-    /// by each <see cref="IValidator"/> to persist its state.
+    /// The Orchestrator integrates with a downstream validation job by implementing a "validator".
+    /// The Orchestrator, through its validator, creates this entity when it starts a new validation step
+    /// and polls the entity to receive status updates. Meanwhile, the downstream validation job
+    /// passes information back to the Orchestrator by updating this entity.
     /// </summary>
     public class ValidatorStatus
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// The unique identifier for this validation. The Validation Orchestrator generates a unique
-        /// validation ID for each <see cref="IValidator"/> it runs on a single package.
+        /// The unique identifier for this validation step. The Validation Orchestrator generates a unique
+        /// validation ID for each validation step it runs on a single package.
         /// </summary>
         public Guid ValidationId { get; set; }
 
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ public class ValidatorStatus
         public int PackageKey { get; set; }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The name of the <see cref="IValidator"/>.
+        /// The name of the "validator" for this validation step.
         /// </summary>
         public string ValidatorName { get; set; }