Issue #2707163 by quietone, chishah92, jhodgdon, AndrewHD, xjm, dww, jdelvillar01, alexpott: core/USAGE.TXT -- API section talks only about hooks and functions

Issue #3192842 by gabesullice, xjm, phenaproxima, lhockley, thalles: Make our README more welcoming by converting it into an "entrypoint" into the Drupal ecosystem

Issue #3143482 by atul4drupal, nitvirus: Replace README.txt links that have a redirect with the preferred URL (including removing stale references to Drupal 8 docs)

Issue #3143115 by Ramya Balasubramanian, mrinalini9, atul4drupal, xjm: README.txt file format for Drupal

Issue #2865416 by owenpm3, swatichouhan012, neelam_wadhwani, cilefen: Root README.txt installation profile section links to D7 docs

Issue #3067645 by greg.1.anderson, Mile23, Mixologic: Add core scaffold assets to drupal/core's composer.json extra field

Issue #2946041 by neerajsingh: Theme development link should point to the version specific documentation

Issue #2944658 by neerajsingh, cilefen: Creating distributions link should point to the version specific documentation

Issue #2701027 by Gábor Hojtsy, Sharique, jhodgdon: Drupal 8 UPGRADE.txt is misleading in many ways (in its name to begin with)

Issue #2491155 by mikeburrelljr, Mac_Weber, opdavies: Update drupal.org and kernel.org URLs in core modules (Follow-up to 2489912)

Issue #2426901 by David_Rothstein: Add back various links (especially security-related links) to README.txt that were removed from INSTALL.txt

Issue #2072043 by frob, er.pushpinderrana, Mile23, cweagans: Add link to examples project in README.txt

Issue #1539940 by jwilson3, infiniteluke, mrf, ryanissamson: Fix up README files to encourage good placement of themes, modules, and profiles

Nate Lampton authored 13 years ago and catch committed 13 years ago

Issue #22336 by quicksketch, scor, boombatower, and rfay. Move all core Drupal files under a core subdirectory.

#607028 by deviantintegral, marcvangend, uNeedStuff, jhodgdon, mokko, et al: Add README.txt to core. Provides some general information about Drupal and pointers to important reference pages.