Merge pull request #179 from wiremock/contributing-and-docs

Extend the contributor guide, list steps towards 1.0

Author: oleg-nenashev

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Contributing
+
+This repository is implemented as a standard Maven project.
+All contributions are welcome!
+Just submit a pull request.
+
+See [this page](https://wiremock.org/docs/participate/) for a generic WireMock Contributor Guide.
+
+## Road towards 1.0
+
+The next major and well overdue milestone is 1.0.
+The scope for this release is listed [here](https://github.com/wiremock/wiremock-testcontainers-java/milestone/1).
+Contributions are welcome!
+
+## Good First Issues
+
+There are some [good first issues](https://github.com/wiremock/wiremock-testcontainers-java/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22) listed in the repository.
+
+Apart from that, you can always create some new examples, demos and tests.
+There are many WireMock extensions and also many features that can be potentially added to the distribution.
+
+## Maintainer Notes
+
+### Releasing
+
+The release is done automatically using the GitHub actions.
+Steps:
+
+1. Run the release pipeline with a proper version
+2. Create the release notes for the release (Release Drafter is at your service)

LICENSE.txt

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       same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
       identification within third-party archives.
 
-   Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
+   Copyright 2023 WireMock Inc., Oleg Nenashev and all project contributors
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

README.md

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 ## Contributing
 
-This repository is implemented as a standard Maven project.
-All contributions are welcome!
-Just submit a pull request.
-
-See [this page](https://wiremock.org/docs/participate/) for a generic WireMock Contributor Guide
-    
+See the [Contributor Guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md).