Merge pull request #1642 from opensafely/steve/remove-unneeded-cohort…

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Remove note on cohort-extractor docstrings

docs/updating-the-docs.md

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-## Making changes to the study definition variables
-
-Edit the docstrings in the [`patients.py` file in the `cohort-extractor` repository](https://github.com/opensafely-core/cohort-extractor/blob/master/cohortextractor/patients.py).
-
-!!! note "Variable docstrings follow the [Google style guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#383-functions-and-methods)."
-
-If you don't have write access, you can fork the cohort-extractor repo, make a change, and submit a pull request.
-Editing directly in GitHub will take you through these steps automatically.
-At least one commit in the pull request should be named using the prefix `fix: ` or `feature: `. For example `fix: typo in age_as_of docstring`.
-This ensures that a new version of `cohortextractor` is released and can be imported by the documentation via GitHub actions.
-Then add a reference to your new variable in the [variables page](legacy/study-def-variables.md).
-
-Additionally, the
-[`requirements.prod.txt`](https://github.com/opensafely/documentation/blob/main/requirements.prod.txt)
-file in the [documentation
-repo](https://github.com/opensafely/documentation) itself has to be
-updated to match the new incremented version of `cohortextractor`. See
-the [documentation repository's
-README](https://github.com/opensafely/documentation#building-locally-and-testing)
-that details the use of `pip-compile` for this.