docs: Fix inaccuracies in root markdown files (#17433)

* docs: Fix inaccuracies in root markdown files

- Update npm requirement from v8 to v10 in README
- Remove obsolete GO111MODULE references
- Correct formatting issues and typos in CHANGELOG
- Fix maintainer entry formatting in MAINTAINERS
- Update outdated URLs in CONTRIBUTING

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Signed-off-by: Joshua Shanks <jjshanks@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
 
 ## 3.2.1 / 2025-02-25
 
-* [BUGFIX] Don't send Accept` header `escape=allow-utf-8` when `metric_name_validation_scheme: legacy` is configured. #16061
+* [BUGFIX] Don't send `Accept` header `escape=allow-utf-8` when `metric_name_validation_scheme: legacy` is configured. #16061
 
 ## 3.2.0 / 2025-02-17
 
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@
 * [ENHANCEMENT] scrape: Add metadata for automatic metrics to WAL for `metadata-wal-records` feature. #15837
 * [ENHANCEMENT] promtool: Support linting of scrape interval, through lint option `too-long-scrape-interval`. #15719
 * [ENHANCEMENT] promtool: Add --ignore-unknown-fields option. #15706
-* [ENHANCEMENT] ui: Make "hide empty rules" and hide empty rules" persistent #15807
+* [ENHANCEMENT] ui: Make "hide empty rules" and "hide empty rules" persistent #15807
 * [ENHANCEMENT] web/api: Add a limit parameter to `/query` and `/query_range`. #15552
 * [ENHANCEMENT] api: Add fields Node and ServerTime to `/status`. #15784
-* [PERF] Scraping: defer computing labels for dropped targets until they are needed by the UI.  #15261
+* [PERF] Scraping: defer computing labels for dropped targets until they are needed by the UI. #15261
 * [BUGFIX] remotewrite2: Fix invalid metadata bug for metrics without metadata. #15829
 * [BUGFIX] remotewrite2: Fix the unit field propagation. #15825
 * [BUGFIX] scrape: Fix WAL metadata for histograms and summaries. #15832
@@ -271,9 +271,9 @@
  * [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Improve calculation of space used by labels. #13880
  * [ENHANCEMENT] Rules: new metric rule_group_last_rule_duration_sum_seconds. #15672
  * [ENHANCEMENT] Observability: Export 'go_sync_mutex_wait_total_seconds_total' metric. #15339
- * [ENHANCEMEN] Remote-Write: optionally use a DNS resolver that picks a random IP. #15329
+ * [ENHANCEMENT] Remote-Write: optionally use a DNS resolver that picks a random IP. #15329
  * [PERF] Optimize `l=~".+"` matcher. #15474, #15684
- * [PERF] TSDB: Cache all symbols for compaction . #15455
+ * [PERF] TSDB: Cache all symbols for compaction. #15455
  * [PERF] TSDB: MemPostings: keep a map of label values slices. #15426
  * [PERF] Remote-Write: Remove interning hook. #15456
  * [PERF] Scrape: optimize string manipulation for experimental native histograms with custom buckets. #15453

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
   of inspiration. Also please see our [non-goals issue](https://github.com/prometheus/docs/issues/149) on areas that the Prometheus community doesn't plan to work on.
 
 * Relevant coding style guidelines are the [Go Code Review
-  Comments](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments)
+  Comments](https://go.dev/wiki/CodeReviewComments)
   and the _Formatting and style_ section of Peter Bourgon's [Go: Best
   Practices for Production
   Environments](https://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#formatting-and-style).
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ go get example.com/some/module/pkg@vX.Y.Z
 Tidy up the `go.mod` and `go.sum` files:
 
 ```bash
-# The GO111MODULE variable can be omitted when the code isn't located in GOPATH.
+go mod tidy
-GO111MODULE=on go mod tidy
 ```
 
 You have to commit the changes to `go.mod` and `go.sum` before submitting the pull request.

MAINTAINERS.md

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ Maintainers for specific parts of the codebase:
 * `model/histogram` and other code related to native histograms: Björn Rabenstein (<beorn@grafana.com> / @beorn7),
 George Krajcsovits (<gyorgy.krajcsovits@grafana.com> / @krajorama)
 * `storage`
-  * `remote`: Callum Styan (<callumstyan@gmail.com> / @cstyan), Bartłomiej Płotka (<bwplotka@gmail.com> / @bwplotka), Tom Wilkie (tom.wilkie@gmail.com / @tomwilkie), Nicolás Pazos ( <npazosmendez@gmail.com> / @npazosmendez), Alex Greenbank ( <alexgreenbank@yahoo.com> / @alexgreenbank)
+  * `remote`: Callum Styan (<callumstyan@gmail.com> / @cstyan), Bartłomiej Płotka (<bwplotka@gmail.com> / @bwplotka), Tom Wilkie (tom.wilkie@gmail.com / @tomwilkie), Nicolás Pazos (<npazosmendez@gmail.com> / @npazosmendez), Alex Greenbank (<alexgreenbank@yahoo.com> / @alexgreenbank)
     * `otlptranslator`: Arthur Silva Sens (<arthursens2005@gmail.com> / @ArthurSens), Arve Knudsen (<arve.knudsen@gmail.com> / @aknuds1), Jesús Vázquez (<jesus.vazquez@grafana.com> / @jesusvazquez)
 * `tsdb`: Ganesh Vernekar (<ganesh@grafana.com> / @codesome), Bartłomiej Płotka (<bwplotka@gmail.com> / @bwplotka), Jesús Vázquez (<jesus.vazquez@grafana.com> / @jesusvazquez), George Krajcsovits (<gyorgy.krajcsovits@grafana.com> / @krajorama)
 * `web`
   * `ui`: Julius Volz (<julius.volz@gmail.com> / @juliusv)
-    * `module`: Augustin Husson (<husson.augustin@gmail.com> @nexucis)
+    * `module`: Augustin Husson (<husson.augustin@gmail.com> / @nexucis)
 * `Makefile` and related build configuration: Simon Pasquier (<pasquier.simon@gmail.com> / @simonpasquier), Ben Kochie (<superq@gmail.com> / @SuperQ)
 
 For the sake of brevity, not all subtrees are explicitly listed. Due to the

README.md

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ To build Prometheus from source code, You need:
 
 * Go: Version specified in [go.mod](./go.mod) or greater.
 * NodeJS: Version specified in [.nvmrc](./web/ui/.nvmrc) or greater.
-* npm: Version 8 or greater (check with `npm --version` and [here](https://www.npmjs.com/)).
+* npm: Version 10 or greater (check with `npm --version` and [here](https://www.npmjs.com/)).
 
 Start by cloning the repository:
 
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ prometheus --config.file=your_config.yml
 ```
 
 *However*, when using `go install` to build Prometheus, Prometheus will expect to be able to
-read its web assets from local filesystem directories under `web/ui/static` and
+read its web assets from local filesystem directories under `web/ui/static`. In order for
-`web/ui/templates`. In order for these assets to be found, you will have to run Prometheus
+these assets to be found, you will have to run Prometheus from the root of the cloned
-from the root of the cloned repository. Note also that these directories do not include the
+repository. Note also that this directory does not include the React UI unless it has been
-React UI unless it has been built explicitly using `make assets` or `make build`.
+built explicitly using `make assets` or `make build`.
 
 An example of the above configuration file can be found [here.](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/documentation/examples/prometheus.yml)