Updated CONTRIBUTING.md significantly #1431
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Our Contributor's Guide had a lot of outdated information in it. This updates it to solidly use the modern development workflow based around
uv
,make
, andpre-commit
.Also:
make install
command to use the latest stable version of Python for the virtual environment, downloading that foruv
if necessary, and also to install git pre-commit hooks locally.