chore: update maintainer guidelines link in MAINTAINERS.md

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Pull request overview

Updates the maintainer-guidelines reference in MAINTAINERS.md to point to the current Hiero-Ledger maintainer guidance location.

Changes:

• Replaces the previous governance-repo “Maintainers” link with the .github/CONTRIBUTING.md section covering users and maintainers.

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Walkthrough

Updated documentation links: MAINTAINERS.md had its maintainer duties URL replaced to point to .github/CONTRIBUTING.md. CHANGELOG.md gained an Unreleased chore entry noting that link update. No code or public API changes. (46 words)

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Documentation link update MAINTAINERS.md	Replaced maintainer duties URL (previous governance repo anchor) with .github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
Changelog entry CHANGELOG.md	Added an Unreleased chore entry documenting the maintainer-guidelines link update.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	No description was provided by the author, making it impossible to assess relevance to the changeset.	Add a brief description explaining why the maintainer guidelines link is being updated and what the new location represents.

✅ Passed checks (2 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: updating the maintainer guidelines link in MAINTAINERS.md file.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Replaced by #1616