Issue 7202 - Point development guide to contributing section (#7280)

changelog/7202.doc.rst

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+The development guide now links to the contributing section of the docs and 'RELEASING.rst' on GitHub.

doc/en/development_guide.rst

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 Development Guide
 =================
 
-Some general guidelines regarding development in pytest for maintainers and contributors. Nothing here
-is set in stone and can't be changed, feel free to suggest improvements or changes in the workflow.
-
-
-Code Style
-----------
-
-* `PEP-8 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008>`_
-* `flake8 <https://pypi.org/project/flake8/>`_ for quality checks
-* `invoke <http://www.pyinvoke.org/>`_ to automate development tasks
-
-
-Branches
---------
-
-We have two long term branches:
-
-* ``master``: contains the code for the next bug-fix release.
-* ``features``: contains the code with new features for the next minor release.
-
-The official repository usually does not contain topic branches, developers and contributors should create topic
-branches in their own forks.
-
-Exceptions can be made for cases where more than one contributor is working on the same
-topic or where it makes sense to use some automatic capability of the main repository, such as automatic docs from
-`readthedocs <readthedocs.org>`_ for a branch dealing with documentation refactoring.
-
-Issues
-------
-
-Any question, feature, bug or proposal is welcome as an issue. Users are encouraged to use them whenever they need.
-
-GitHub issues should use labels to categorize them. Labels should be created sporadically, to fill a niche; we should
-avoid creating labels just for the sake of creating them.
-
-Each label should include a description in the GitHub's interface stating its purpose.
-
-Labels are managed using `labels <https://github.com/hackebrot/labels>`_. All the labels in the repository
-are kept in ``.github/labels.toml``, so any changes should be via PRs to that file.
-After a PR is accepted and merged, one of the maintainers must manually synchronize the labels file with the
-GitHub repository.
-
-Temporary labels
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-To classify issues for a special event it is encouraged to create a temporary label. This helps those involved to find
-the relevant issues to work on. Examples of that are sprints in Python events or global hacking events.
-
-* ``temporary: EP2017 sprint``: candidate issues or PRs tackled during the EuroPython 2017
-
-Issues created at those events should have other relevant labels added as well.
-
-Those labels should be removed after they are no longer relevant.
-
-
-.. include:: ../../RELEASING.rst
+The contributing guidelines are to be found :ref:`here <contributing>`.
+The release procedure for pytest is documented on
+`GitHub <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/RELEASING.rst>`_.