[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Create CONTRIBUTING.md with contribution instructions (#1707)

[Panu Matilainen]

Yes contributing and coding style docs are one of the many many things missing.

Short of those... we're just following commonly used best practises. While various details such as exact indentation and media differ, for the kernel docs provide excellent general guidance on both topics:
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html 

A PR with multiple commits is similar to a patch series, but email is far more flexible media for that than GH, because one can properly review each patch on their own merits and apply individual patches easily. A GH PR is technically an all or nothing proposition, and reviewed as such. As a ballpark rule, the resistance to getting reviewed and merged grows exponentially with number of commits because it's just so much more trouble than it's ever worth.

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