Code formatting not maintained with spotless

Author: MarkEWaite

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@ Your pull request will be evaluated by the [Jenkins job](https://ci.jenkins.io/j
 
 Before submitting your change, please assure that you've added tests that verify the change.
 
-## Code formatting
-
-Source code and pom file formatting is maintained by the `spotless` maven plugin.
-Before submitting a pull request, confirm the formatting is correct with:
-
-* `mvn spotless:apply`
-
 ## Spotbugs checks
 
 Please don't introduce new spotbugs output.