I was about to merge a PR pertaining to Solr's new Docker module when it
occurred to me that I ought to add a CHANGES.txt entry.  But, for Solr
users (which includes me and everyone reading this), it's annoying to have
to go to Solr's all-encompassing CHANGES.txt to find Docker upgrade
notes, which is a distinct way of running Solr.  I think the same could be
said for our contribs, and perhaps even SolrJ, which is another distinct
consumable.  The idea of separated CHANGES.txt aligns well with contribs
being further isolated (see both the discussion on separate git repos for
them, and also the discussion of getting rid of "dist" (each contrib's jar
goes in its own folder; keeps to itself)).

Solr's root /CHANGES.txt could at the very top reference the other
CHANGES.txt files.

WDYT?

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley

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