documentation: Add a contributing & maintainers file

Per our devcall last week.  Adding now mainly so we can start pointing
LogAnalyzer fixes to @chapman and quickly get them into master.

@tridge & @randy - I kinda guessed at the maintainers list, we can
update later as needed.
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# How to contribute to the APM project?
If you are reading this page, you are possibly interested in contributing to our project. We have a very active (and friendly) developer group and would love to have the help! Possible ways you can help:
* Testing the code
* Filing issues on github, when you see a problem (or adding detail to existing issues that effect you)
* Fixing issues
* Adding new features
* Reviewing existing pull requests, and notifying the maintainer if it passes your code review.
# How to make a good bug report...
(FIXME - someone please add)
# Submitting patches
Please see our [wiki article](http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/submitting-patches-back-to-master/).
# Development Team
The ArduPilot project is open source and [maintained](MAINTAINERS.md) by a team of volunteers.
To contribute, you can send a pull request on Github. You can also
join the [development discussion on Google
Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/drones-discuss). Note
that the Google Groups mailing lists are NOT for user tech support,
and are moderated for new users to prevent off-topic discussion.

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# Ardupilot maintainers
To facilitate development we have a number of maintainers who have volunteered to coordinate development on subsections of the project. When submitting pull requests please follow the conventions preferred by each maintainer. See below
* Plane mantainer @tridge.
* Quads/Hex/etc... maintainer @rmackay9
* Rover maintainer @tridge
* LogAnalyzer maintainer @chapman
* Anything else: @Craig3DRobotics
When submitting pull requests, please include the subsystem (Plane, copter, VRBRAIN, etc... as the first part of the commit) and follow the rules listed in [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).