chore: update contribution guideline with branching strategy

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This PR explains the new branching strategy for Tiptap.

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Summary

• Added contribution guidelines for the new branching strategy.
• Documented main and maintenance/v* branch workflows.
• Added guidance for backporting critical fixes to stable releases.
• Updated the pull request template with a branching checklist item.
• Updated release branch and distTag examples.
• Updated publishing to run only from main.

Walkthrough

The pull request documents the main and maintenance/v* branch model, adds branch-targeting guidance, updates release-branch instructions, and limits publishing to pushes on main.

Changes

Branching guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Branch targeting and backports .github/pull_request_template.md, CONTRIBUTING.md	The documentation defines the main and maintenance/v* branches, explains stable-release backports, and links branch-targeting guidance from the pull request template and procedure.
Release branch and publishing updates CONTRIBUTING.md	The release-branch instructions now require creating a maintenance branch before the first breaking change. The publishing example uses latest-v2 as the distTag.
Main-branch publishing trigger .github/workflows/publish.yml	The publishing workflow now triggers only for pushes to main. The setup-env cache values use double quotes.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to dabad

The publish workflow now triggers only for main even though maintenance/v* branches are documented as release sources, so maintenance releases may not publish. Merge should wait until the configured maintenance branches are included in the trigger.

Suggested labels: area: docs, area: ci, complexity: easy

Suggested reviewers: fengmk2, alexvcasillas

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections and clearly explains that the PR documents the new branching strategy. The checklist is present, and the concise review guidance is sufficient.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: updating contribution guidelines with the branching strategy.
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…
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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Around line 30-36: Align the maintenance branch documentation with publish
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publish workflow and represented in publish configuration, including the
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In @.github/workflows/publish.yml:
- Around line 7-8: Update the publish workflow’s on.push.branches configuration
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