Remove unmaintained localnet infrastructure and documentation

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -416,16 +416,11 @@ Run: `cd test/fuzz && make fuzz-{PACKAGE-COMPONENT}`
 **If you contribute to the RPC endpoints it's important to document your
 changes in the [Openapi file](./rpc/openapi/openapi.yaml)**.
 
-To test your changes you must install `nodejs` and run:
-
-```bash
-npm i -g dredd
-make build-linux build-contract-tests-hooks
-make contract-tests
-```
-
-**WARNING: these are currently broken due to <https://github.com/apiaryio/dredd>
-not supporting complete OpenAPI 3**.
-
-This command will popup a network and check every endpoint against what has
-been documented.
+**WARNING: contract tests are currently not available. They previously depended 
+on a local network setup that has been removed due to maintenance issues. The 
+tests were also broken due to <https://github.com/apiaryio/dredd> not supporting 
+complete OpenAPI 3**.
+
+The contract tests would check every endpoint against what has been documented 
+in the OpenAPI specification. Alternative testing approaches should be used to 
+validate API changes.

DOCKER/README.md

@@ -35,18 +35,6 @@ docker run -it --rm -v "/tmp:/cometbft" cometbft/cometbft init
 docker run -it --rm -v "/tmp:/cometbft" cometbft/cometbft node --proxy_app=kvstore
 ```
 
-## Local cluster
-
-To run a 4-node network, see the `Makefile` in the root of [the repo](https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/blob/v0.38.x/Makefile) and run:
-
-```sh
-make build-linux
-make build-docker-localnode
-make localnet-start
-```
-
-Note that this will build and use a different image than the ones provided here.
-
 ## License
 
 - CometBFT's license is [Apache 2.0](https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/blob/v0.38.x/LICENSE).

Makefile

@@ -311,11 +311,6 @@ build-linux:
 	GOOS=$(GOOS) GOARCH=$(GOARCH) GOARM=$(GOARM) $(MAKE) build
 .PHONY: build-linux
 
-#? build-docker-localnode: Build the "localnode" docker image
-build-docker-localnode:
-	@cd networks/local && make
-.PHONY: build-docker-localnode
-
 # Runs `make build COMETBFT_BUILD_OPTIONS=cleveldb` from within an Amazon
 # Linux (v2)-based Docker build container in order to build an Amazon
 # Linux-compatible binary. Produces a compatible binary at ./build/cometbft
@@ -324,17 +319,6 @@ build_c-amazonlinux:
 	docker run --rm -it -v `pwd`:/cometbft cometbft/cometbft:build_c-amazonlinux
 .PHONY: build_c-amazonlinux
 
-#? localnet-start: Run a 4-node testnet locally
-localnet-start: localnet-stop build-docker-localnode
-	@if ! [ -f build/node0/config/genesis.json ]; then docker run --rm -v $(CURDIR)/build:/cometbft:Z cometbft/localnode testnet --config /etc/cometbft/config-template.toml --o . --starting-ip-address 192.167.10.2; fi
-	docker compose up -d
-.PHONY: localnet-start
-
-#? localnet-stop: Stop testnet
-localnet-stop:
-	docker compose down
-.PHONY: localnet-stop
-
 #? build-contract-tests-hooks: Build hooks for dredd, to skip or add information on some steps
 build-contract-tests-hooks:
 ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
@@ -344,10 +328,10 @@ else
 endif
 .PHONY: build-contract-tests-hooks
 
-#? contract-tests: Run a nodejs tool to test endpoints against a localnet
-# The command takes care of starting and stopping the network
-# prerequisits: build-contract-tests-hooks build-linux
-# the two build commands were not added to let this command run from generic containers or machines.
+#? contract-tests: Run a nodejs tool to test endpoints against a testnet
+# NOTE: Currently not functional due to removal of localnet infrastructure
+# prerequisits: build-contract-tests-hooks
+# The binary build commands were not added to let this command run from generic containers or machines.
 # The binaries should be built beforehand
 contract-tests:
 	dredd

docs/networks/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,4 @@ parent:
 
 # Overview
 
-Use [Docker Compose](./docker-compose.md) to spin up CometBFT testnets on your
-local machine.
-
 See the `cometbft testnet --help` command for more help initializing testnets.

dredd.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dry-run: null
 hookfiles: build/contract_tests
 language: go
 require: null
-server: make localnet-start
+# server: # localnet functionality has been removed - contract tests not currently available
 server-wait: 30
 init: false
 custom: {}