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* Made small changes in punctuation, word selection, and word order to make it easier to read and understand the README and CONTRIBUTING 'md' files.

* Made changes based on feedback from @daniel-beck.

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* Draft the new maintainer guide

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* Maintainer guide - Replace the first role by "contributor"

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* Maintainer guide - address some feedback

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* Maintainer guide - more updates

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* Fix typos

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The build no longer works with Maven 3.5.3.  If you try it, you end up with this:

[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:3.0.0-M2:enforce (display-info) @ jenkins-parent ---
[WARNING] Rule 0: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.RequireMavenVersion failed with message:
3.5.4+ required to use Incrementals.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Jenkins main module 2.199-SNAPSHOT ................. FAILURE [ 44.098 s]

* Reference redirectors and jenkins.io as much as possible

* Something went wrong, so this is a troubleshooting URL

* More specific redirect URLs

https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines