Yes, please do apply.  You don't need to run a doc build for every small change; of course it is nice if you do, but errors will be caught by the daily build routine anyway and mailed to me.

As for the two blank lines: you'll see that the original conversion from LaTeX produced two blank lines after each description (function, class, ...), and I find this to be a little more readable than only one blank line, especially when the descriptions are longer; for short descriptions leaving only one blank line saves space.  Syntactically, both are fully equivalent.