[task #5698] First draft of CONTRIBUTING file

[Ben Pfaff]

Follow-up Comment #8, task #5698 (project pspp):

> Texinfo isn't used much in Statistics departments. I do not expect any
authors
> who submit code to write the syntax description for PSPP. I expect to have
to
> do it myself. But I could add a statement in the guidelines asking authors
to
> add a section to the manual if they can, or to at least send us a text
> description of the routine that we can put in the manual.

I would also be surprised to find out that a contributor knew how to write
Texinfo.  But Texinfo is really just a little bit of coding on top of plain
text.  You could, if you liked, request some plain text (or HTML, whatever)
documentation, and then it would be easy to convert it to Texinfo.

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