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@JuliaKukulies : I now added the sphinx-based rendering docu to this PR. I used pandoc to convert markdown to rst, but I am not sure with all code parts have...

I made some updates to the dev guide which will come with the next direct commit to the branch. All looks good beside that these topics still need to be...

My suggestion would be: - Keep CONTRIBUTING.md - but reduce content to nice welcome words and a link list to the actual content in the dev guide

No objections at all! @JuliaKukulies: Thank you for finalizing this very important contributions! I will try to make some time next week to contribute to the PR.

@freemansw1 : Hi Sean, this PR is ready for a 2nd review. Do you think you can make it until the next dev meeting? Thanks, Fabian.

Who agreed to be the 2nd reviewer here? Was it you @freemansw1 ?