From: Hugo Landau <hlandau@openssl.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:53:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove mention of NEWS.md in CONTRIBUTING.md
X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.3.0-alpha1~557
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=870f26e66ad6c52af6ec6100fb9f5d5ce67c6586;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

Remove mention of NEWS.md in CONTRIBUTING.md

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22774)
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 0117fce16fe..11c31e0d696 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -93,13 +93,5 @@ guidelines:
     with a specific release without having to sift through the higher
     noise ratio in git-log.
 
- 8. For larger or more important user visible changes, as well as
-    security fixes, please add a line in [NEWS.md](NEWS.md).
-    On exception, it might be worth adding a multi-line entry (such as
-    the entry that announces all the types that became opaque with
-    OpenSSL 1.1.0).
-    This file helps users get a very quick summary of what comes with a
-    specific release, to see if an upgrade is worth the effort.
-
- 9. Guidelines how to integrate error output of new crypto library modules
+ 8. Guidelines how to integrate error output of new crypto library modules
     can be found in [crypto/err/README.md](crypto/err/README.md).