Update contributing doc to better reflect reality

Point to the new mailing list
Remove the issue template since that's handled automatically now
Remove office hours since we're not doing that anymore
https a few more URLs

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index b2f9ece975..23dd85d7b7 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ Chef is built to last. We strive to ensure high quality throughout the Chef expe
   continuously on all the pull requests. We require the Travis runs to succeed on every pull
   request before being merged.
 
-In addition to this it would be nice to include the description of the problem you are solving
-  with your change. You can use [Chef Issue Template](#issuetemplate) in the description section
-  of the pull request.
 
 ### <a name="cr"></a> Chef Code Review Process
 
@@ -49,15 +46,6 @@ Once you a pull request, the **Chef Engineering Team** or **Chef Core Committers
 If you would like to learn about when your code will be available in a release of Chef, read more about
   [Chef Release Process](#release).
 
-### <a name="oh"></a> Developer Office Hours
-
-We hold regular "office hours" on Google Hangouts On-The-Air that you can join to review contributions together,
-ask questions about contributing, or just hang out with Chef Software employees.  The regularly scheduled Chef hangouts occur on Mondays and Wednesdays at 3pm Eastern / Noon Pacific.
-
-The link to join the Hangout or watch it live is usually tweeted from [@ChefOfficeHours](https://twitter.com/ChefOfficeHours)
-and posted in the #chef IRC channel on irc.freenode.net when the hangout is about to start.
-
-You can watch the recordings of the old Code Review hangouts on the [opscodebtm](http://www.youtube.com/opscodebtm) youtube account.
 
 ### Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
 Licensing is very important to open source projects. It helps ensure the
@@ -134,29 +122,6 @@ There is also a listing of the various Chef products and where to file issues th
 Otherwise you can file your issue in the [Chef project](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues)
   and we will make sure it gets filed against the appropriate project.
 
-In order to decrease the back and forth in issues, and to help us get to the bottom of them quickly
-  we use the below issue template. You can copy/paste this template into the issue you are opening and
-  edit it accordingly.
-
-<a name="issuetemplate"></a>
-```
-### Version:
-[Version of the project installed]
-
-### Environment: [Details about the environment such as the Operating System, cookbook details, etc...]
-
-### Scenario:
-[What you are trying to achieve and you can't?]
-
-### Steps to Reproduce:
-[If you are filing an issue what are the things we need to do in order to repro your problem?]
-
-### Expected Result:
-[What are you expecting to happen as the consequence of above reproduction steps?]
-
-### Actual Result:
-[What actually happens after the reproduction steps?]
-```
 
 ### Useful Github Queries
 
@@ -190,7 +155,7 @@ We frequently make `alpha` and `beta` releases with version numbers that look li
 We do a `Minor` release approximately every 3 months and `Patch` releases on a when-needed
   basis for regressions, significant bugs, and security issues.
 
-Announcements of releases are available on [Chef Blog](http://www.chef.io/blog) when they are
+Announcements of releases are available on [Chef Blog](https://www.chef.io/blog/) when they are
   available.
 
 ## Chef Community
@@ -198,8 +163,8 @@ Announcements of releases are available on [Chef Blog](http://www.chef.io/blog)
 Chef is made possible by a strong community of developers and system administrators. If you have
   any questions or if you would like to get involved in the Chef community you can check out:
 
-* [chef](http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/info/chef) and [chef-dev](http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/info/chef-dev) mailing lists
-* [\#chef](https://botbot.me/freenode/chef) and [\#chef-hacking](https://botbot.me/freenode/chef-hacking) IRC channels on irc.freenode.net
+* [chef](https://discourse.chef.io/) mailing list
+* [\#chef](https://botbot.me/freenode/chef/) and [\#chef-hacking](https://botbot.me/freenode/chef-hacking/) IRC channels on irc.freenode.net
 
 Also here are some additional pointers to some awesome Chef content: