adding basic contributing documentation, mostly to include publishing process in writing

Author: bquinn

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+## Terms
+
+* Contributor: Someone who wishes to add to this code base but does not have merge and publish rights on this repository
+* Maintainer: Someone who adds to this code base regularly and has merge and publish rights to this repository
+
+As a `Contributor`:
+
+* Fork this repo
+* Submit a PR to the upstream
+  
+
+As a `Maintainer`:
+
+* Follow the same pattern as `Contributor` for submitting code changes, new features, etc
+* Publishing new versions of this npm package:
+  1. Bump the `version` field of the package.json and update the changelog and commit directly to `master`
+  2. Cut a release via Github's `releases` tab on this repository to trigger a GitHub `publish` action which will publish the latest version of this package to npmjs.org's public npm registry.