[6.0] f61d0e8e4 document purpose of doc/changes.rst as agreed upon at vdd18q2

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

commit f61d0e8e4f8756f3ddb15e062377a05cdd8cc69a
Author: Nils Goroll <nils.goroll at uplex.de>
Date:   Mon May 14 19:52:37 2018 +0200

    document purpose of doc/changes.rst as agreed upon at vdd18q2
    
    Conflicts:
            doc/changes.rst

diff --git a/doc/changes.rst b/doc/changes.rst
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+===================
+About this document
+===================
+
+.. keep this section at the top!
+
+This document contains notes from the Varnish developers about ongoing
+development and past versions:
+
+* Developers will note here changes which they consider particularly
+  relevant or otherwise noteworthy
+
+* This document is not necessarily up-to-date with the code
+
+* It serves as a basis for release managers and others involved in
+  release documentation
+
+* It is not rendered as part of the official documentation and thus
+  only available in ReStructuredText (rst) format in the source
+  repository and -distribution.
+
+Official information about changes in releases and advise on the
+upgrade process can be found in the ``doc/sphinx/whats-new/``
+directory, also available in HTML format at
+http://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/whats-new/index.html and via
+individual releases. These documents are updated as part of the
+release process.
+
+
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