Merge pull request #890 from jdeathe/issue/865

CLOSES #865: Adds docs directory and simplify README.md

.dockerignore

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-.env
-.env.example
-.git
-.gitignore
-dist
-test
-docker-compose.yml
-LICENSE
-README-short.txt
-*.md
+/.env
+/.env.example
+/.git
+/.gitignore
+/dist
+/docs
+/test
+/docker-compose.yml
+/LICENSE
+/README-short.txt
+/*.md
 !README.md
 **/*.mk
-**/Makefile
+**/Makefile

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-.env
-packages
-dist
+/.env
+/dist

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Summary of release changes.
 - Adds Makefile target `logsdef` to handle deferred logs output within a target chain.
 - Adds exec proxy function to `sshd-wrapper` used to pass through nice.
 - Adds double quotes around value containing spaces.
+- Adds `/docs` directory for supplementary documentation and simplify README.
 - Fixes build error due to supervisord dependency resolution for `meld3`; pin to `1.0.2`.
 - Fixes validation failure of 0 second --timeout value in `test/health_status`.
 - Removes `ENABLE_SSHD_BOOTSTRAP` from docker-compose example configuration.