refactor(root): relocate the contributing guide into .github/

[hyperpolymath]

refactor(root): relocate the contributing guide into .github/

The estate canonical location is .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, which GitHub
auto-discovers; the root copy is removed and references are updated in the same
change.

• .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  (new)
• CONTRIBUTING.adoc
  (deleted)
• MAINTAINERS.adoc

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• Documentation
  • Added contributor guidance covering licensing, development workflows, documentation standards, artefact updates, language policies, pull requests, and security reporting.
  • Updated the maintainers’ documentation to link to the new contributor guide.
  • Removed the previous root-level contributor guide.

Walkthrough

The pull request adds .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, removes CONTRIBUTING.adoc, and updates MAINTAINERS.adoc to reference the new guide.

Changes

Contribution guide relocation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contribution guide content .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, CONTRIBUTING.adoc	Adds contribution standards for licensing, development commands, A2ML artefacts, language policy, documentation format, pull requests, and security reporting. Removes the previous AsciiDoc guide.
Maintainer documentation reference MAINTAINERS.adoc	Updates the See Also link to point to .github/CONTRIBUTING.md and renames the link text to Contributing Guide.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8f215

The guide could mislead contributors about permitted languages, but the remaining issue is narrow and can be corrected with a small documentation update.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the relocation of the contributing guide to .github/.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains the guide relocation, root file removal, and reference update.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md:
- Around line 50-55: Update the language-policy paragraph to classify
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MAINTAINERS.adoc (1)

65-65: LGTM!

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CodeRabbit findings — disposition

This PR was merged with a CHANGES_REQUESTED review on the record. Each finding was re-checked against main today and is dispositioned below.

Addressed. CodeRabbit's own thread ends ✅ Addressed in commit 00b7993.

Nothing further: the finding concerned the guide's wording about which community-health files stay Markdown — that statement is still true at the new path (the guide itself is still Markdown, just relocated to .github/).