[SOLR-14149] Remove non-changes from CHANGES.txt

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.5
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 24/Dec/19 17:43
• Updated: 24/Mar/20 12:46
• Resolved: 09/Feb/20 04:08

Description

Our CHANGES.txt should just list our changes / release notes. Nothing else.

• no Introduction
• no "Getting Started"
• no "Versions of Major Components" with each release.

We have a website, a reference guide, and a README.md that are all more suitable places. Lets not maintain it here as well; lets keep this file focused on it's namesake. We can/should link to that information from CHANGES.txt. For example linking to https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_4/solr-upgrade-notes.html is highly appropriate as it's a more user friendly editorialized version of CHANGES.txt.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1202