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@@ -103,18 +103,17 @@ rule in our source control system.
 commit that has been merged in the `main` branch.
 3. Every git pull request has been linked to exactly one project issue. The
 issue number prefixes the pull request title, e.g. `i-1 <pull request title>`.
-4. The change has been thoroughly reviewed and all discovered issues have
 been resolved. Merging without a code review approval is only acceptable
 when reviewers are not available.
-5. The change has been tested by Ansible Molecule scenarios. Our team adopted
+4. The change has been tested by Ansible Molecule scenarios. Our team adopted
 an approach resembling Test Driven Development for the sake of automated
 regression testing. 
-6. All automated tests have been passing successfully consistently. We have
+5. All automated tests have been passing successfully consistently. We have
 zero tolerance on test flakiness.
-7. Source code has been linted with `yamllint` and `ansible-lint`. Any errors
+6. Source code has been linted with `yamllint` and `ansible-lint`. Any errors
 have been fixed.
-8. All YAML documents have been formated with `yamlfix`.
-9. User facing changes have been documented appropriately.
+7. All YAML documents have been formated with `yamlfix`.
+8. User facing changes have been documented appropriately.
 
 ## Development environment setup