Chore: Add CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines and standardized templates (#279)

* chore: Improve GitHub workflows, issue template, and gitignore entries

- Add support for manual triggering of build and lint workflows.
- Improve bug report template by clarifying prompts and adding checklist and tips for better explanation of issues.
- Ignore `.md` files in `.github` and `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE` folders.
- Add badges for test running and coverage status in README.md.

* chore: Add standardized templates to repository

- Add pull request and feature request templates to the `.github` folder

* docs: Add CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines and update .gitignore.

- Update .gitignore to remove exclusions for browsing history files
- Add an exclusion for CONTRIBUTING.md in the Community section in .gitignore
- Create CONTRIBUTING.md with guidelines for contributors.

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
   pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
   build:

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
   pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
 jobs:
   lint:
     name: Lint

.github/workflows/unittest.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 on:
-  [pull_request]
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 name: run tests
 jobs: