Update INSTALL (apache#39563)

INSTALL

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ INSTALL / BUILD instructions for Apache Airflow
 Basic installation of Airflow from sources and development environment setup
 ============================================================================
 
-This is a generic installation method that requires minimum starndard tools to develop airflow and
-test it in local virtual environment (using standard CPyhon installation and `pip`).
+This is a generic installation method that requires minimum standard tools to develop airflow and
+test it in a local virtual environment (using standard CPyhon installation and `pip`).
 
-Depending on your system you might need different prerequisites, but the following
+Depending on your system, you might need different prerequisites, but the following
 systems/prerequisites are known to work:
 
 Linux (Debian Bookworm):
@@ -20,97 +20,94 @@ You might need to install MariaDB development headers to build some of the depen
 
     sudo apt-get install libmariadb-dev libmariadbclient-dev
 
-MacOS (Mojave/Catalina) you might need to to install XCode command line tools and brew and those packages:
+MacOS (Mojave/Catalina) you might need to install XCode command line tools and brew and those packages:
 
     brew install sqlite mysql postgresql
 
 The `pip` is one of the build packaging front-ends that might be used to install Airflow. It's the one
 that we recommend (see below) for reproducible installation of specific versions of Airflow.
 
-As of version 2.8 Airflow follows PEP 517/518 and uses `pyproject.toml` file to define build dependencies
-and build process and it requires relatively modern versions of packaging tools to get airflow built from
+As of version 2.8, Airflow follows PEP 517/518 and uses `pyproject.toml` file to define build dependencies
+and build process, and it requires relatively modern versions of packaging tools to get airflow built from
 local sources or sdist packages, as PEP 517 compliant build hooks are used to determine dynamic build
-dependencies. In case of `pip` it means that at least version 22.1.0 is needed (released at the beginning of
-2022) to build or install Airflow from sources. This does not affect the ability of installing Airflow from
+dependencies. In the case of `pip` it means that at least version 22.1.0 is needed (released at the beginning of
+2022) to build or install Airflow from sources. This does not affect the ability to install Airflow from
 released wheel packages.
 
 Downloading and installing Airflow from sources
 -----------------------------------------------
 
 While you can get Airflow sources in various ways (including cloning https://github.com/apache/airflow/), the
-canonical way to download it is to fetch the tarball published at https://downloads.apache.org where you can
-also verify checksum, signatures of the downloaded file. You can then and un-tar the source move into the
-directory that was un-tarred.
+canonical way to download it is to fetch the tarball (published at https://downloads.apache.org), after
+verifying the checksum and signatures of the downloaded file.
 
 When you download source packages from https://downloads.apache.org, you download sources of Airflow and
-all providers separately, however when you clone the GitHub repository at https://github.com/apache/airflow/
+all providers separately. However, when you clone the GitHub repository at https://github.com/apache/airflow/
 you get all sources in one place. This is the most convenient way to develop Airflow and Providers together.
-otherwise you have to separately install Airflow and Providers from sources in the same environment, which
+Otherwise, you have to install Airflow and Providers separately from sources in the same environment, which
 is not as convenient.
 
 ## Creating virtualenv
 
-Airflow pulls in quite a lot of dependencies in order to connect to other services. You generally want to
-test or run Airflow from a virtual env to make sure those dependencies are separated from your system
-wide versions. Using system-installed Python installation is strongly discouraged as the versions of Python
-shipped with operating system often have a number of limitations and are not up to date. It is recommended
-to install Python using either https://www.python.org/downloads/ or other tools that use them. See later
-for description of `Hatch` as one of the tools that is Airflow's tool of choice to build Airflow packages.
+Airflow pulls in quite a lot of dependencies to connect to other services. You generally want to
+test or run Airflow from a virtualenv to ensure those dependencies are separated from your system-wide versions. Using system-installed Python installation is strongly discouraged as the versions of Python
+shipped with the operating system often have some limitations and are not up to date. It is recommended to install Python using the official release (https://www.python.org/downloads/), or Python project management tools such as Hatch. See later
+for a description of `Hatch` as one of the tools that is Airflow's tool of choice to build Airflow packages.
 
 Once you have a suitable Python version installed, you can create a virtualenv and activate it:
 
     python3 -m venv PATH_TO_YOUR_VENV
     source PATH_TO_YOUR_VENV/bin/activate
 
-## Installing airflow locally
+## Installing Airflow locally
 
 Installing airflow locally can be done using pip - note that this will install "development" version of
-Airflow, where all providers are installed from local sources (if they are available), not from `pypi`.
-It will also not include pre-installed providers installed from PyPI. In case you install from sources of
-just Airflow, you need to install separately each provider that you want to develop. In case you install
-from GitHub repository, all the current providers are available after installing Airflow.
+Airflow, where all providers are installed from local sources (if available), not from `pypi`.
+It will also not include pre-installed providers installed from PyPI. If you install from sources of
+just Airflow, you need to install separately each provider you want to develop. If you install
+from the GitHub repository, all the current providers are available after installing Airflow.
 
     pip install .
 
-If you develop Airflow and iterate on it you should install it in editable mode (with -e) flag and then
+If you develop Airflow and iterate on it, you should install it in editable mode (with -e) flag, and then
 you do not need to re-install it after each change to sources. This is useful if you want to develop and
-iterate on Airflow and Providers (together) if you install sources from cloned GitHub repository.
+iterate on Airflow and Providers (together) if you install sources from the cloned GitHub repository.
 
 Note that you might want to install `devel` extra when you install airflow for development in editable env
-as this one contains minimum set of tools and dependencies that are needed to run unit tests.
+this one contains the minimum set of tools and dependencies needed to run unit tests.
 
 
     pip install -e ".[devel]"
 
 
 You can also install optional packages that are needed to run certain tests. In case of local installation
-for example you can install all prerequisites for google provider, tests and
-all hadoop providers with this command:
+for example, you can install all prerequisites for Google provider, tests, and
+all Hadoop providers with this command:
 
     pip install -e ".[google,devel-tests,devel-hadoop]"
 
 
-or you can install all packages needed to run tests for core, providers and all extensions of airflow:
+or you can install all packages needed to run tests for core, providers, and all extensions of airflow:
 
     pip install -e ".[devel-all]"
 
 You can see the list of all available extras below.
 
-# Using Hatch to manage your Python, virtualenvs and build packages
+# Using Hatch to manage your Python, virtualenvs, and build packages
 
-Airflow uses [hatch](https://hatch.pypa.io/) as a build and development tool of choice. It is one of popular
+Airflow uses [hatch](https://hatch.pypa.io/) as a build and development tool. It is one of the popular
 build tools and environment managers for Python, maintained by the Python Packaging Authority.
 It is an optional tool that is only really needed when you want to build packages from sources, but
 it is also very convenient to manage your Python versions and virtualenvs.
 
-Airflow project contains some pre-defined virtualenv definitions in ``pyproject.toml`` that can be
-easily used by hatch to create your local venvs. This is not necessary for you to develop and test
+Airflow project contains some pre-defined virtualenv definitions in `pyproject.toml` that can be
+easily used by Hatch to create your local venvs. This is not necessary for you to develop and test
 Airflow, but it is a convenient way to manage your local Python versions and virtualenvs.
 
 Installing Hatch
 ----------------
 
-You can install hat using various other ways (including Gui installers).
+You can install Hatch using various other ways (including Gui installers).
 
 Example using `pipx`:
 
@@ -123,7 +120,7 @@ to upgrade `hatch` easily as needed with:
 
 ## Using Hatch to manage your Python versions
 
-You can also use hatch to install and manage airflow virtualenvs and development
+You can also use Hatch to install and manage airflow virtualenvs and development
 environments. For example, you can install Python 3.10 with this command:
 
     hatch python install 3.10
@@ -164,57 +161,56 @@ CLI commands - without support for providers or databases.
 
 The other environments are just bare-bones Python virtualenvs with Airflow core requirements only,
 without any extras installed and without any tools. They are much faster to create than the default
-environment, and you can manually install either appropriate extras or directly tools that you need for
+environment, and you can manually install either appropriate extras or tools that you need for
 testing or development.
 
     hatch env create
 
-You can create specific environment by using them in create command:
+You can create specific environments by using them in create command:
 
     hatch env create airflow-310
 
 You can install extras in the environment by running pip command:
 
     hatch -e airflow-310 run -- pip install -e ".[devel,google]"
 
-And you can enter the environment with running a shell of your choice (for example zsh) where you
+And you can enter the environment by running a shell of your choice (for example, zsh) where you
 can run any commands
 
     hatch -e airflow-310 shell
 
-Once you are in the environment (indicated usually by updated prompt), you can just install
-extra dependencies you need:
+Once you are in the environment (indicated usually by an updated prompt), you can just install
+the extra dependencies you need:
 
     [~/airflow] [airflow-310] pip install -e ".[devel,google]"
 
 You can exit the environment by just exiting the shell.
 
-You can also see where hatch created the virtualenvs and use it in your IDE or activate it manually:
+You can also see where Hatch created the virtualenvs and use it in your IDE or activate it manually:
 
     hatch env find airflow-310
 
-You will get path similar to:
+You will get a path similar to the following:
 
     /Users/jarek/Library/Application Support/hatch/env/virtual/apache-airflow/TReRdyYt/apache-airflow
 
-Then you will find `python` binary and `activate` script in the `bin` sub-folder of this directory and
+Then you will find `python` binary and `activate` script in the `bin` sub-folder of this directory, and
 you can configure your IDE to use this python virtualenv if you want to use that environment in your IDE.
 
-You can also set default environment name by HATCH_ENV environment variable.
+You can also set the default environment name by the HATCH_ENV environment variable.
 
-You can clean the env by running:
+You can clean the environment by running the following:
 
     hatch env prune
 
 More information about hatch can be found in https://hatch.pypa.io/1.9/environment/
 
 ## Using Hatch to build your packages
 
-You can use hatch to build installable package from the airflow sources. Such package will
-include all metadata that is configured in `pyproject.toml` and will be installable with pip.
+You can use Hatch to build installable packages from the Airflow sources. Such package will
+include all metadata configured in `pyproject.toml` and will be installable with pip.
 
-The packages will have pre-installed dependencies for providers that are always
-installed when Airflow is installed from PyPI. By default both `wheel` and `sdist` packages are built.
+The packages will have pre-installed dependencies for providers that are available when Airflow is installed from PyPI. Both `wheel` and `sdist` packages are built by default.
 
     hatch build
 
@@ -226,28 +222,26 @@ You can also build only `wheel` or `sdist` packages:
 ## Installing recommended version of dependencies
 
 Whatever virtualenv solution you use, when you want to make sure you are using the same
-version of dependencies as in main, you can install recommended version of the dependencies by using
+version of dependencies as in main, you can install the recommended version of the dependencies by using
 constraint-python<PYTHON_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION>.txt files as `constraint` file. This might be useful
-to avoid "works-for-me" syndrome, where you use different version of dependencies than the ones
-that are used in main, CI tests and by other contributors.
+to avoid "works-for-me" syndrome, where you use different versions of dependencies than the ones
+that are used in main CI tests and by other contributors.
 
-There are different constraint files for different python versions. For example this command will install
-all basic devel requirements and requirements of google provider as last successfully tested for Python 3.8:
+There are different constraint files for different Python versions. For example, this command will install
+all basic devel requirements and requirements of Google provider as last successfully tested for Python 3.8:
 
     pip install -e ".[devel,google]"" \
       --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-main/constraints-3.8.txt"
 
-You can upgrade just airflow, without paying attention to provider's dependencies by using
-the 'constraints-no-providers' constraint files. This allows you to keep installed provider dependencies
-and install to latest supported ones by pure airflow core.
+Using the 'constraints-no-providers' constraint files, you can upgrade Airflow without paying attention to the provider's dependencies. This allows you to keep installed provider dependencies and install the latest supported ones using pure Airflow core.
 
 pip install -e ".[devel]" \
   --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-main/constraints-no-providers-3.8.txt"
 
 Airflow extras
 ==============
 
-Airflow has a number of extras that you can install to get additional dependencies. They sometimes install
+Airflow has several extras that you can install to get additional dependencies. They sometimes install
 providers, sometimes enable other features where packages are not installed by default.
 
 You can read more about those extras in the extras reference:
@@ -271,8 +265,8 @@ rabbitmq, s3fs, saml, sentry, statsd, uv, virtualenv
 Provider extras
 ---------------
 
-Those extras are available as regular Airflow extras, they install provider packages in standard builds
-or dependencies that are necessary to enable the feature in editable build.
+Those extras are available as regular Airflow extras; they install provider packages in standard builds
+or dependencies that are necessary to enable the feature in an editable build.
 
 # START PROVIDER EXTRAS HERE
 
@@ -293,8 +287,8 @@ Devel extras
 ------------
 
 The `devel` extras are not available in the released packages. They are only available when you install
-Airflow from sources in `editable` installation - i.e. one that you are usually using to contribute to
-Airflow. They provide tools such as `pytest` and `mypy` for general purpose development and testing.
+Airflow from sources in `editable` installation - i.e., one that you are usually using to contribute to
+Airflow. They provide tools like `pytest` and `mypy` for general-purpose development and testing.
 
 # START DEVEL EXTRAS HERE
 
@@ -318,7 +312,7 @@ all, all-core, all-dbs, devel-all, devel-ci
 Doc extras
 ----------
 
-Doc extras - used to install dependencies that are needed to build documentation. Only available during
+Doc extras are used to install dependencies that are needed to build documentation. Only available during
 editable install.
 
 # START DOC EXTRAS HERE
@@ -330,7 +324,7 @@ doc, doc-gen
 Deprecated extras
 -----------------
 
-The `deprecated` extras are deprecated extras from Airflow 1 that will be removed in future versions.
+The deprecated extras are from Airflow 1 and will be removed in future versions.
 
 # START DEPRECATED EXTRAS HERE
 
@@ -339,35 +333,35 @@ spark, webhdfs, winrm
 
 # END DEPRECATED EXTRAS HERE
 
-Compiling front end assets
+Compiling front-end assets
 --------------------------
 
-Sometimes you can see that front-end assets are missing and website looks broken. This is because
+Sometimes, you can see that front-end assets are missing, and the website looks broken. This is because
 you need to compile front-end assets. This is done automatically when you create a virtualenv
 with hatch, but if you want to do it manually, you can do it after installing node and yarn and running:
 
     yarn install --frozen-lockfile
     yarn run build
 
-Currently we are running yarn coming with note 18.6.0, but you should check the version in
+Currently, we are running yarn coming with note 18.6.0, but you should check the version in
 our `.pre-commit-config.yaml` file (node version).
 
 Installing yarn is described in https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install
 
-Also - in case you use `breeze` or have `pre-commit` installed you can build the assets with:
+Also - in case you use `breeze` or have `pre-commit` installed, you can build the assets with the following:
 
     pre-commit run --hook-stage manual compile-www-assets --all-files
 
 or
 
     breeze compile-www-assets
 
-Both commands will install node and yarn if needed to a dedicated pre-commit node environment and
+Both commands will install node and yarn, if needed, to a dedicated pre-commit node environment and
 then build the assets.
 
-Finally you can also clean and recompile assets with ``custom`` build target when running hatch build
+Finally, you can also clean and recompile assets with `custom` build target when running the Hatch build
 
     hatch build -t custom -t wheel -t sdist
 
-This will also update `git_version` file in airflow package that should contain the git commit hash of the
+This will also update `git_version` file in the Airflow package that should contain the git commit hash of the
 build. This is used to display the commit hash in the UI.