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DOC: update contributing guide to reflect the preferred practice

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Issue type
Documentation
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the current contributing guide and README to see where notebook practices are documented. Update the guidance to state that notebooks should contain no outputs and that .md files are preferred over .ipynb; done means the chosen guide structure clearly reflects both points.

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Description

documentation infrastructure

Currently missing points:

  • No outputs should be included in the notebooks
  • we do prefer .md files as opposed to .ipynb.

Maybe the updated guide should be in a separate file, and keep the absolute newcomer version, that we currently have, in the README?

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