From 2c7d7e428c64381ec025f30060fe240c70f52fd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nikstur <nikstur@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:42:06 +0200
Subject: CONTRIBUTING.md: remove historical trivia

The transition to markdown is done now and the historical trivia is not
helpful for first time contributers who are the primary audience for
this document. Telling the user to edit a file by editing a file is
superfluous.
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'CONTRIBUTING.md')

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 1ba2ae48da4e..694cbcd1a36c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -128,19 +128,6 @@ Anything that does not cause user or downstream dependency regressions can be ba
 - Services which require a client to be up-to-date regardless. (E.g. `spotify`, `steam`, or `discord`)
 - Security critical applications (E.g. `firefox`)
 
-## Generating 23.11 Release Notes
-<!--
-note: title unchanged even though we don't need regeneration because extant
-PRs will link here. definitely change the title for 23.11 though.
--->
-
-Documentation in nixpkgs is transitioning to a markdown-centric workflow. In the past release notes required a translation step to convert from markdown to a compatible docbook document, but this is no longer necessary.
-
-Steps for updating 23.11 Release notes:
-
-1. Edit `nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md` with the desired changes
-2. Commit changes to `rl-2311.section.md`.
-
 ## Reviewing contributions
 
 See the nixpkgs manual for more details on how to [Review contributions](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-reviewing-contributions).
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