docs: improve minimal reproductions guide (#28926)

docs/development/minimal-reproductions.md

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 
 We may ask you to create a "minimal reproduction" repository to help us fix bugs or work on a feature.
 
-This document explains why we need a minimal reproduction, why we won't use your production repository to debug, and how to create a good minimal reproduction.
+This document explains:
+
+- why we need a minimal reproduction
+- why we will not use your production repository to debug
+- how to create a good minimal reproduction
 
 ## Help yourself by creating a minimal reproduction
 
@@ -16,37 +20,39 @@ It's fastest if you - as the bug reporter or feature requester - create the repr
 
 ## How the Renovate developers use your minimal reproduction
 
-The first benefit of a public reproduction is to prove that the problem is not caused by your environment or by a setting you left out of your description, thinking it wasn't relevant.
-If there were any doubts about whether you'd found a genuine problem before, they are usually removed once a reproduction is made.
+A reproduction confirms the problem is with Renovate, and _not_ with your environment, or your configuration settings.
+A reproduction also helps us see where the bug or missing feature is, and to verify that the new code meets the requirements.
 
-Next, when a reproduction has minimal config, it can often let us narrow down or even identify the root cause, suggest workarounds, etc.
-This means we can often help you from code inspection alone.
+When a reproduction has minimal config, we can oftern narrow down, or identify the root cause.
+This helps us suggest workarounds.
+Often we can help you from code inspection alone.
 
-Finally, by making the code/dependencies minimal, it usually makes the problem feasible to step through using a debugger if code inspection wasn't sufficient.
-Production repositories or non-minimal reproductions are often very difficult to debug because break points get triggered dozens or hundreds or times.
+Finally, with minimal code and dependencies, we can step through with a debugger.
+This helps when looking at the code is not enough to find the problem.
+Production repositories, or non-minimal reproductions, are hard to debug as break points get triggered often.
 
 ## What is a minimal reproduction?
 
-The basic idea of a minimal reproduction is to use the _least_ amount of both code and config to trigger missing or wrong behavior.
-A minimal reproduction helps the developers see where the bug or missing feature is, and allows us to verify that the new code meets the requirements.
+A minimal reproduction should have the _least_ amount of both code and config to trigger missing or wrong behavior.
 
 ## Where to host the minimal reproduction
 
-Unless it's impossible, use a public repository on GitHub.com to host your reproduction.
-If the reproduction needs to be on another platform like GitLab or Bitbucket because it's related to functionality only on that platform, then that's okay.
+Please put your reproduction in a public repository on GitHub.com, if possible.
+
+You may put the reproduction on another platform like GitLab or Bitbucket, _if_ the reproduction needs features/behavior of that platform.
 
 ## Creating a minimal reproduction
 
 There are two ways to create a minimal reproduction:
 
-- Start with an empty repository and copy files from your production repository
-- Start with a fork of your production repository and remove files and config
+- Start with an empty repository and _copy_ files from your production repository
+- Start with a fork of your production repository and _remove_ files and config
 
 General steps:
 
-1. Create your minimal reproduction repository on GitHub, only use GitLab or Bitbucket if needed
+1. Put your minimal reproduction repository on GitHub, only use GitLab or Bitbucket if needed
 1. Use the fewest number of repository files and dependencies
-1. Reduce the Renovate config to a minimum
+1. Reduce your Renovate config to a minimum
 1. Remove private or secret information
 1. Create a `readme.md` file that explains the current behavior and expected behavior
 1. Set the repository visibility to `public`
@@ -66,26 +72,27 @@ A production repository usually has:
 - many custom rules in the Renovate configuration file
 - many files that are not relevant
 
-Having lots of "moving parts" makes debugging tricky, because debug break points can be triggered hundreds of times.
+Having lots of "moving parts" makes it hard to debug, as debug break points can trigger hundreds of times.
 
-When you have lots of custom config for Renovate, it's hard to find the root cause of the behavior.
+When you have lots of custom config for Renovate, it's hard for us to find the root cause of the behavior.
 Bugs are often caused by multiple features interacting.
-Reducing the config to a minimum helps us find out exactly which config elements are required to trigger the bug.
+Reducing the config to a minimum helps us find exactly which config elements are needed to trigger the bug.
 
 ### "It's too much work to create a minimal reproduction"
 
-If you don't create a minimal reproduction, the Renovate maintainers won't prioritize working on your issue.
+If you do not create a minimal reproduction, the Renovate maintainers will not prioritize working on your issue.
 Discussions without a reproduction will probably go stale unless you, or somebody else, creates a minimal reproduction.
 
 ### "I already described what you need in the issue"
 
 Thank you for describing your issue in detail.
-But we still need a minimal reproduction in a repository, and we'd like you to be the one to make sure it matches both your description as well as expected behavior.
+But we still need a minimal reproduction in a repository.
+We'd like you to make sure it matches both your description as well as expected behavior.
 
 ### Forcing Renovate to create a lot of pending updates
 
 Put an old version of a frequently updated dependency in your repository.
-Set a high `minimumReleaseAge` for that dependency, for example:
+Then set a high `minimumReleaseAge` for that dependency, for example:
 
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