Missing contributing guide

[jmcarp]

I noticed a few references to a CONTRIBUTING.md file, but it doesn't seem to exist.

[nschad]

yep....
we should probably do the same as https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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