Improving the section on how to contribute

[rcap107]

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Hello, while I was working on my first PR I hit a few snags and problems that may also happen to new contributors, so I thought it might be useful to update the section in the documentation relative to contributing to skrub.

Some of the things I would like to add:

• [ ] A checklist of the operations that should be performed for the PR (pre-commit, write tests, update the changelog etc.)
• [ ] How to run tests using a specific environment with pixi on the local machine for debugging
• [ ] How to check for code coverage on the local machine
• [ ] How to check doctests
• [ ] Preparing and running pre-commit
• [ ] Some information on where the code for testing is, and how to structure tests

If you have more ideas, please add them!

@Vincent-Maladiere suggested having a section on working with pixi, but I don't have enough experience with it to write it.

Suggest a potential alternative/fix

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[jeromedockes]

thanks @rcap107 that's a great idea. I guess this is the file to update: https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst

[jeromedockes]

@rcap107 could you update this issue to state what remains to be done after #1131? thanks

[MarieSacksick]

I considered tackling this issue before the sprint, but it looks like it's all done and that it can be closed :)!

[rcap107]

Yep, I'm finding some more things I'd like to change in the doc page, but everything I mentioned in the original post has been fixed so we can close this one.