docs: add CONTRIBUTING with the canonical-on-Gitea PR flow

Moves developer, testing and release instructions out of the README,
minus the fixture-stripping advice, which was wrong.

Explains that a GitHub PR closes itself as merged once the mirror syncs,
because the merge preserves the contributor's SHAs -- so a PR closing
without a visible Merge click reads as success rather than rejection.

Documents the cog-api dependency: its CI clones this package at
USCOGDATA_REF, defaulting to main with no pin, so anything merged here
reaches the API's next build. Includes the commands to run its suite
against a branch first.

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jared

2026-08-08 18:20:42 -04:00

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@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@
 ^\.gitea$
 ^CLAUDE\.md$
 ^\.superpowers$
 ^CONTRIBUTING\.md$