Merge pull request #6 from dirkmueller/contributing

Add contributing guidelines for the governance repository

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# OpenELA Governance Contribution Guidelines
+
+## Scope
+
+This document describes how contributions to the OpenELA governance repository
+are handled. For information on how to contributing to OpenELA in general,
+please refer to the [Contributor Guidelines](contributors_guidelines.md)instead.
+
+The openELA governance repository contains all the technical project governance
+descriptions which includes steps for contribution and review of contributions
+amongst other things.
+
+## main branch only
+
+The governance repository is unbranched and the tip of the tree of main
+describes the current state of governance.
+
+## Submit as early as possible
+
+We encourage changes to be discussed in the open. If you're unsure about the
+potential acceptance of a proposed change, you are welcome to create a Pull
+Request to gauge interest. If you're doing a PR and are not yet ready to accept
+review comments, please mark it as Draft instead.
+
+## Sign-off on submissions
+
+Changes should be signed off using the DCO ([Developer’s Certificate of
+Origin](https://developercertificate.org/), as defined in the [Linux Kernel
+documentation](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst)).
+
+## Ensure that the markdown linting is happy
+
+Pull requests to the repository are undergoing some markdown linting. Without
+the lint check passing the pull request is not elligible to be mergeable into
+the repository.
+
+## Peer Review
+
+Changes to the governance repository are peer-reviewed by the active members of
+the OpenELA Technical Governance. For merging a PR, one review is required. If
+a member of the Technical Governance is proposing the PR, the review needs to
+be provided by a different member of the Technical Governance, ideally from a
+different company to avoid a conflict of interest situation.
+
+## How to Handle Stuck Pull Requests
+
+If a Pull Request is not reviewed in time, there are a couple of options:
+
+* Double check that no member of the Technical Governance has left a
+  comment,maybe without the "Requesting Change" label that still warrants
+  discussion or feedback
+* Give the members of the Technical Governance sufficient time to discover and
+  assess your contribution. A two weeks period should be assumed given vacation
+  or travel times of individuals.
+
+If there seems to be no blocking issue and sufficient time has passed, it
+is possible to ask for an update in the Pull Request.