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Add skeleton for maintainer and contributor guidebooks #2051

Open austinlparker opened 2 months ago

austinlparker commented 2 months ago

This is some initial work to get a contributor and maintainer's guide added to the community repo. The goal of this work is to collect a lot of the implicit knowledge that exists in the community on how to get started as a contributor or maintainer, and preserve it for new contributors/maintainers, as well as to clarify shared expectations about these roles.

h/t to the Kubernetes project for their work here, as I've borrowed heavily from their community guides to make this PR.

This PR is really intended to get the process started -- I don't want to necessarily block on stuff like 'where do I put ', so let's get a place to put stuff and let people make PRs as need be.

austinlparker commented 2 months ago

I've added a bit more here and I think I've consolidated all of the existing contributor guide stuff over into the new structure, PTAL. There's some broken links still I believe.

svrnm commented 1 week ago

@tiffany76 @theletterf please take a look into this draft of a guide, let us know where it helps you to answer some of your questions and what might be missing (which does not need to be addressed in this PR)

tiffany76 commented 1 week ago

@tiffany76 please take a look into this draft of a guide, let us know where it helps you to answer some of your questions and what might be missing (which does not need to be addressed in this PR)

@svrnm LGTM! I didn't notice any gaps from my current perspective, but as I spend more time in my role, I'll make note of issues that are not addressed here. Thanks.