Apply some Finnish wisdom

Author: StanFromIreland

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -18,13 +18,10 @@ Please be aware that our workflow does deviate slightly from the typical GitHub
 project. Details on how to properly submit a pull request are covered in
 [Lifecycle of a Pull Request](https://devguide.python.org/pullrequest/).
 We utilize various bots and status checks to help with this, so do follow the
-comments they leave and their "Details" links, respectively. The key points of
-our workflow that are not covered by a bot or status check are:
-
-- All discussions that are not directly related to the code in the pull request
-  should happen on the [issue tracker](https://devguide.python.org/tracker/)
-- Upon your first non-trivial pull request (which includes documentation changes),
-  feel free to add yourself to [`Misc/ACKS`](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Misc/ACKS)
+comments they leave and their "Details" links, respectively. A key point of
+our workflow that is not covered by a bot or status check is that all
+discussions that are not directly related to the code in the pull request
+should happen on the [issue tracker](https://devguide.python.org/tracker/).
 
 
 ## Setting Expectations

getting-started/pull-request-lifecycle.rst

@@ -629,8 +629,8 @@ it is warranted.
 Crediting
 =========
 
-Non-trivial contributions are credited in the ``Misc/ACKS`` file (and, most
-often, in a contribution's news entry as well).
+Non-trivial contributions are often credited in What's New in Python
+and a contributions's news entry as well.
 
 .. _issue tracker: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues
 .. _Core Development Discourse category: https://discuss.python.org/c/core-dev/23