RFR: 8312882: Update the CONTRIBUTING.md with pointers to lifecycle of a PR [v5]

[Erik Joelsson]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 16:27:38 GMT, Jesse Glick <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @jaikiran in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/12871#issuecomment-1612310113 pointed me to a resource I had not previously found. https://openjdk.org/contribute is fine at a high level but still says things like
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>>> When your change is ready, send a message to the appropriate development list…
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>> which clearly predates Skara, and does not apparently link to anything more current. Whereas this https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/doc/building.md is thorough and discoverable, finding accurate guidelines for proposing pull requests was tough.
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> Jesse Glick has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains eight additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into patch-1
>  - Regnerated building.html with preferred pandoc version
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>    (cherry picked from commit 4e418ebfc0d80ba228760c5f6f5332470f3875ce)
>  - Hand-picked HTML diff since `make update-build-docs` rewrote everything https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14716#discussion_r1288412572
>  - Keep it simple https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14716#discussion_r1288391918
>  - Making `building.md` also link only to the guide
>  - Linking only to the guide, as suggested by @JesperIRL: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14716#issuecomment-1670908305
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into patch-1
>  - 8312882: Update the CONTRIBUTING.md with pointers to lifecycle of a PR

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14716#pullrequestreview-1570149865