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 Overview
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-The watcher module is a part of [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org), an effort by the OpenStack infrastructure team to provide continuous integration testing and code review for OpenStack and OpenStack community projects not part of the core software.  The module its self is used to flexibly configure and manage the Watcher service for OpenStack.
+The watcher module is a part of [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org), an effort by the OpenStack infrastructure team to provide continuous integration testing and code review for OpenStack and OpenStack community projects not part of the core software.  The module itself is used to flexibly configure and manage the Watcher service for OpenStack.
 
 Module Description
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