minor edits to language and badges

README.rst

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Current development version (development branch): |Docs Status dev| |Travis dev
 .. |Pypi install| image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/icepyx.svg
     :target: https://pypi.org/project/icepyx
 
-.. |Contributors| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-34-orange.svg?style=flat-square
+.. |Contributors| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-40-orange.svg?style=flat-square
     :alt: All Contributors
     :target: https://github.com/icesat2py/icepyx/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
 

doc/source/contributing/icepyx_internals.rst

@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ Authentication
 --------------
 Authentication in icepyx is handled using a Mixin class. A Mixin class is a class
 which defines functionality that may be desired by multiple other classes within
-a library. For example, at this time both the Query and Variables classes need
+a library.
+For example, at this time the Query, Variables, and Read classes need
 to be able to authenticate. Instead of defining the same properties and
 functionality twice, icepyx has an EarthdataAuthMixin class that is inherited
-by both modules.
+by any modules that need an Earthdata login.
 
 **Property Access**
 

doc/source/contributing/release_guide.rst

@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ This will involve submitting a new PR to development with whatever debugging cha
 Once merged into development, any changes will automatically be reflected in this step's PR, and the tests will rerun automatically.
 
 With an approving review and passed tests in hand, you're ready to push the new release!
-Unlike when you merge new features into ``development`` with a squash merge, for this step you'll want to use a plain old merge.
+Unlike when you merge new features into ``development`` with a squash merge,
+for this step you'll want to use a plain old merg (the button says "Create a Merge Commit").
 This makes it easy to keep ``development`` and ``main`` even instead of diverging due to a series of merge commits.
 `This website <https://goiabada.blog/git-tricks-keeping-branches-even-7ddc8647d1f3>`_ does a great job explaining the how and why of not using a squash merge here.
 

doc/source/example_notebooks/IS2_data_access.ipynb

@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
     "### Log in to NASA Earthdata\n",
     "When downloading data from NSIDC, all users must login using a valid (free) Earthdata account. The process of authenticating is handled by icepyx by creating and handling the required authentication to interface with the data at the DAAC (including ordering and download). Authentication is completed as login-protected features are accessed. In order to allow icepyx to login for us we still have to make sure that we have made our Earthdata credentials available for icepyx to find.\n",
     "\n",
-    "There are multiple ways to provide your Earthdata credentials via icepyx. Behind the scenes, icepyx is using the [earthaccess library](https://nsidc.github.io/earthaccess/). The [earthaccess documentation](https://nsidc.github.io/earthaccess/tutorials/restricted-datasets/#auth) automatically tries three primary mechanisms for logging in, all of which are supported by icepyx:\n",
+    "There are multiple ways to provide your Earthdata credentials via icepyx. Behind the scenes, icepyx is using the [earthaccess library](https://nsidc.github.io/earthaccess/). The [earthaccess documentation](https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/getting-started/#auth) automatically tries three primary mechanisms for logging in, all of which are supported by icepyx:\n",
     "- with `EARTHDATA_USERNAME` and `EARTHDATA_PASSWORD` environment variables (these are the same as the ones you might have set for icepyx previously)\n",
     "- through an interactive, in-notebook login (used below); passwords are not shown plain text with this option\n",
     "- with stored credentials in a .netrc file (not recommended for security reasons)"