Added 'Contributing' page to documentation

Author: fjwillemsen

docs/contributing.rst

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+Contributing
+------------
+If you're looking to contribute to this package: welcome!
+
+Setup
+^^^^^
+Start out by installing with ``pip install -e .[dev]`` (this installs the package in editable mode alongside the development dependencies). 
+During development, unit and integration tests can be ran with ``pytest``. 
+`Black <https://pypi.org/project/black/>`_ is used as a formatter, and `Ruff <https://pypi.org/project/ruff/>`_ is used as a linter to check the formatting, import sorting et cetera. 
+When using Visual Studio Code, use the ``settings.json`` found in ``.vscode`` to automatically have the correct linting, formatting and sorting during development. 
+In addition, install the extensions recommended by us by searching for ``@recommended:workspace`` in the extensions tab for a better development experience. 
+
+Documentation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+To build the documentation locally, run ``make clean html`` from the ``docs`` folder. Note that the package must have been installed in editable mode with ``pip install -e .``. 
+Upon pushing to main or publishing a version, the documentation will be built and published to the GitHub Pages. 
+The Docstring format used is Google. 
+Type hints are to be included in the function signature and therefor omitted from the docstring. 
+In Visual Studio Code, the ``autoDocstring`` extension can be used to automatically infer docstrings. 
+When referrring to functions and parameters in the docstring outside of their definition, use double backquotes to be compatible with both MarkDown and ReStructuredText, e.g.: *"skip_draws_check: skips checking that each value in ``draws`` is in the ``dist``."*.
+
+Testing
+^^^^^^^
+Before contributing a pull request, please run ``nox`` and ensure it has no errors. This will test against all Python versions explicitely supported by this package, and will check whether the correct formatting has been applied.
+Upon submitting a pull request or pushing to main, these same checks will be ran remotely via GitHub Actions. 

docs/index.rst

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    :maxdepth: 1
 
    getting_started
+   contributing
    autotuning_methodology