Contributing.md should describe a development workflow

[criemen]

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It'd be great if CONTRIBUTING.md would describe a sample development flow

• how to build bazel for development
• how to build a release bazel binary from your development branch
• how to build a sample project with your development copy of bazel

One could easily extend those basics with

• how to debug bazel
• how to run (a part of) the bazel test suite locally

I think a good start would be to mention //src:bazel-bin-dev and what it takes to use that.

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[meteorcloudy]

Some of the steps of building Bazel is documented at https://bazel.build/install/compile-source, but I agree https://bazel.build/contribute should contain more technical guide for developers.

[criemen]

Ah, I didn't even know about that - it'd also be great if that'd be linked to from CONTRIBUTING.md, if nothing else.

[meteorcloudy]

I sent https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/23074