manuals: create a dedicated "Contributor Guide" document

Starting from the original contents of dev-manual/changes.rst
and from text contributed by Richard Purdie.

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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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- The Yocto Project community encourages you to send patches to the
project to fix bugs or add features. If you do submit patches,
follow the project commit guidelines for writing good commit
messages. See the
":ref:`dev-manual/changes:submitting a change to the yocto project`"
section.
messages. See the ":doc:`../contributor-guide/submit-change`"
section in the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Contributor Guide.
- Send changes to the core sooner than later as others are likely
to run into the same issues. For some guidance on mailing lists
to use, see the list in the
":ref:`dev-manual/changes:submitting a change to the yocto project`"
to use, see the lists in the
":ref:`contributor-guide/submit-change:finding a suitable mailing list`"
section. For a description
of the available mailing lists, see the ":ref:`resources-mailinglist`" section in
the Yocto Project Reference Manual.