docs: onboarding information for new releaser/backporters
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Description
Improve process/documentation around how to onboard new releasers and backporters.
Including:
- Getting started documentation
- Formalise the shadowing/mentoring release process
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing onboarding and release documentation, then examine how shadowing and mentoring currently work for releasers and backporters. Done means new releasers and backporters have clear getting-started guidance and a documented shadowing or mentoring process.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation, release
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100