Update CONTRIBUTING.md to reflect actual contribution workflow#6973
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The contributing guide previously instructed external contributors to ask maintainers to assign issues to them before beginning work. This does not reflect actual practice — maintainers self-assign issues for tracking but do not assign external contributors. Updated to instead direct contributors to: - Comment on the issue to signal intent to contribute a fix (for bugs) - Use the existing 'I may be able to implement this feature request' checkbox in the feature request template (for features)
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Motivation and Context
The contributing guide instructs external contributors to ask maintainers to assign issues to them before beginning work. This doesn't reflect actual practice, maintainers do not assign the issues to external contributors.
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Feature Requests section: Direct users to check the "I may be able to implement this feature request" option in the issue template instead of asking for issue assignment.
Code Contributions section: Direct users to comment on the issue to indicate intent to contribute instead of asking for issue assignment.