New policy files for Chef CLient.

CHANGELOG.md: One line description of the changes.
RELEASE_NOTES.md: Important changes and breaking changes that needs to be called out in more detail in Release Notes.
DOC_CHANGES.md: Required doc changes in chef-docs.
CONTRIBUTIONS.md: One line description of the contributions with contributor info.

5 files changed, 57 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+# Chef Client Changelog
+
+## Unreleased
+
+* Improves syntax check speed for Ruby 1.9+, especially when using bundler.
+* Send X-Remote-Request-Id header in order to be able to correlate actions during a single run.
+* Fix for CHEF-5048.
+* Fix for CHEF-5052.
+* Fix for CHEF-5018.
+* Add --validator option to `knife client create` to be able to create validator clients via knife.
+* Add --force option to `knife client delete` in order to prevent accidental deletion of validator clients.
+* Add -r / --runlist option to chef-client which permanently sets or changes the run_list of a node.
+
+## Last Release: 11.10.0 (02/06/2014)
+
+http://docs.opscode.com/release/11-10/release_notes.html
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ The versioning for the Chef project is X.Y.Z.
 * Y is a minor release, which adds both new features and bug fixes
 * Z is a patch release, which adds just bug fixes
 
-Major releases and have historically been once a year. Minor releases for Chef average every two months and patch releases come as needed.
+Major releases and have historically been once a year. Minor releases for Chef average every three months and patch releases come as needed.
 
 There are usually beta releases and release candidates (RC) of major and minor releases announced on
 the [chef-dev mailing list](http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/info/chef-dev). Once an RC is released, we wait at least three
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTIONS.md b/CONTRIBUTIONS.md
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+<!---
+This file is reset everytime when a new release is done. Contents of this file is for the currently unreleased version.
+
+Example Contribution:
+* **kalistec**: Improved file resource greatly.
+-->
+# Chef Client Contributions:
+
+* **jonlives**: Changed the order of recipe and cookbook name setting. Fixes CHEF-5052.
+
diff --git a/DOC_CHANGES.md b/DOC_CHANGES.md
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+<!---
+This file is reset everytime when a new release is done. Contents of this file is for the currently unreleased version.
+
+Example Doc Change:
+### Headline for the required change
+Description of the required change.
+-->
+
+# Chef CLient Doc Changes:
+
+### --validator option for `knife client create`
+Boolean value. If set to true, knife creates a validator client o.w. it creates a user client. Default is false.
+
+###  --force for `knife client delete`
+Option that is required to be specified if user is attempting to delete a validator client. No effect while deleting a user client. 
+
+### -r / --runlist option for chef-client
+Option similar to `-o` which sets or changes the run_list of a node permanently.
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+<!---
+This file is reset everytime when a new release is done. Contents of this file is for the currently unreleased version.
+
+Example Note:
+
+## Example Heading
+Details about the thing that changed that needs to get included in the Release Notes in markdown.
+-->
+# Chef Client Release Notes:
+
+
+# Chef Client Breaking Changes: