fix: Updated docs with grammar and spelling errors

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ responsibility for our work environment.
 7. Respect the privacy of others and the confidentiality of data you access.
 
 8. With respect to cultural differences, be conservative in what you do and liberal in what you
-   accept from others, but not to the point of accepting disrespectful, unprofessional or unfair or
+   accept from others, but not to the point of accepting disrespectful, unprofessional, unfair or
    [unwelcome behavior](#unwelcome-behavior) or [advances](#unwelcome-sexual-advance).
 
 9. Promote the rules of this Code and take action (especially if you are in a
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ responsibility for our work environment.
     discussions. Remember when you update an issue or respond to an email you are potentially
     sending to a large number of people.
 
-11. Step down considerately: Members of every project come and go, and the Hyperledger is no
+11. Step down considerately: Members of every project come and go, and Hyperledger is no
     different. When you leave or disengage from the project, in whole or in part, we ask that you do
     so in a way that minimizes disruption to the project. This means you should tell people you are
     leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where you left off.
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ includes the following persons:
 - Developers
 - Member representatives
 - Staff members
-- Anyone from the Public partaking in the Hyperledger work environment (e.g. contribute code,
+- Anyone from the public partaking in the Hyperledger work environment (e.g. contribute code,
   comment on our code or specs, email us, attend our conferences, functions, etc)
 
 ### Respect
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Hard to define? Some questions to ask yourself are:
 - would I like an account of my behavior published in the organization's newsletter?
 - could my behavior offend or hurt other members of the work group?
 - could someone misinterpret my behavior as intentionally harmful or harassing?
-- would I treat my boss or a person I admire at work like that ?
+- would I treat my boss or a person I admire at work like that?
 - Summary: if you are unsure whether something might be welcome or unwelcome, don't do it.
 
 ### Unwelcome Sexual Advance
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ includes requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a s
 - submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as a basis for employment
   decisions affecting the individual,
 - such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work
-  performance or creating an intimidating hostile or offensive working environment.
+  performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.
 
 ### Workplace Bullying
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ against a co-worker or any professional relations.
 ### Work Environment
 
 is the set of all available means of collaboration, including, but not limited to messages to
-mailing lists, private correspondence, Web pages, chat channels, phone and video teleconferences,
+mailing lists, private correspondence, web pages, chat channels, phone and video teleconferences,
 and any kind of face-to-face meetings or discussions.
 
 ## Incident Procedure

MAINTAINERS.md

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ How to become a maintainer:
 
 The requirement to be able to be proposed as a maintainer is:
 
-- 5 significant changes on code have been authored in this repos by the proposed maintainer and accepted (merged PRs).
+- 5 significant changes to the code have been authored in this repos by the proposed maintainer and accepted (merged PRs).
 
 ### Maintainers approval process
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The following steps must occur for a contributor to be "upgraded" as a maintaine
   - This sponsoring maintainer will create a proposal PR modifying the list of
     maintainers. (see [proposal PR template](#proposal-pr-template).)
   - The proposed maintainer accepts the nomination and expresses a willingness
-    to be a long-term (more than 6 month) committer by adding a comment in the proposal PR.
+    to be a long-term (more than 6 months) committer by adding a comment in the proposal PR.
   - The PR will be communicated in all appropriate communication channels
     including at least [besu-contributors channel on Discord](https://discord.com/invite/hyperledger),
     the [mailing list](https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/besu)
@@ -137,13 +137,13 @@ There is no contribution prescription delay.
 ```markdown
 I propose to add [maintainer github handle] as a Besu project maintainer.
 
-[maintainer github handle] contributed with many high quality commits:
+[maintainer github handle] has contributed with many high-quality commits:
 
 - [list significant achievements]
 
 Here are [their past contributions on Besu project](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/commits?author=[user github handle]).
 
 Voting ends two weeks from today.
 
-For more information on this process see the Becoming a Maintainer section in the MAINTAINERS.md file.
+For more information on this process, see the Becoming a Maintainer section in the MAINTAINERS.md file.
 ```

SECURITY.md

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 If you think you have discovered a security issue in any of the Hyperledger projects, we'd love to
 hear from you. We will take all security bugs seriously and if confirmed upon investigation we will
-patch it within a reasonable amount of time and release a public security bulletin discussing the
-impact and credit the discoverer.
+patch them within a reasonable amount of time and release a public security bulletin discussing the
+impact and crediting the discoverer.
 
 There are two email addresses where Hyperledger Besu accepts security bugs. The
 first, [security "dash" besu at lists dot hyperledger dot org](mailto:security-besu@lists.hyperledger.org)