Backport of Cleanup docs directory and narrow CI skip patterns for retained docs files into release/2.0.x

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ work on an issue, comment on it first and tell us the approach you want to take.
 * Increase our test coverage.
 * Fix a [bug](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/labels/type/bug).
 * Implement a requested [enhancement](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/labels/type/enhancement).
-* Improve our documentation and tutorials. Consul's [Documentation](https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs) and [api godoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/consul/api)
-are deployed from this repo.
+* Improve our documentation and tutorials. Consul's [Documentation](https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs) content is maintained in [hashicorp/web-unified-docs](https://github.com/hashicorp/web-unified-docs/tree/main/content/consul), and the [api godoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/consul/api) is published from this repo.
 * Respond to questions about usage on the issue tracker or the Consul section of the [HashiCorp forum]: (https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/consul)
 
 ### Reporting an Issue
@@ -107,10 +106,9 @@ If a dependency is added or change, run `go mod tidy` to update `go.mod` and `go
 
 #### Developer Documentation
 
-Developer-focused documentation about the Consul code base is under [./docs],
-and godoc package document can be read at [pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/consul].
+Developer-focused documentation about content is maintained in [hashicorp/web-unified-docs](https://github.com/hashicorp/web-unified-docs/tree/main/content/consul),
+and godoc package documentation can be read at [pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/consul].
 
-[./docs]: ../docs/README.md
 [pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/consul]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/consul
 
 ### Testing

.github/workflows/go-tests.yml

@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     branches-ignore:
       - stable-website
-      - 'docs/**'
       - 'ui/**'
       - 'mktg-**' # Digital Team Terraform-generated branches' prefix
-      - 'backport/docs/**'
       - 'backport/ui/**'
       - 'backport/mktg-**'
   push:

.github/workflows/reusable-conditional-skip.yml

@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ jobs:
           files: |
             .github/workflows/reusable-conditional-skip.yml
             **.md
-            docs/**
+            docs/config/checklist-adding-config-fields.md
+            docs/contributing/add-a-changelog-entry.md
+            docs/contributing/fork-the-project.md
             ui/**
             website/**
             grafana/**

.github/workflows/security-scan.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ on:
     # paths-ignore only works for non-required checks.
     # Jobs that are required for merge must use reusable-conditional-skip.yml.
     paths-ignore:
-      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'docs/config/checklist-adding-config-fields.md'
+      - 'docs/contributing/add-a-changelog-entry.md'
+      - 'docs/contributing/fork-the-project.md'
       - 'grafana/**'
       - '.changelog/**'