Added pull_request_template.md and Contributing.md (#299)

Author: mcbarton

.github/pull_request_template.md

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+# Description
+
+Please include a summary of changes, motivation and context for this PR.
+
+Fixes # (issue)
+
+## Type of change
+
+Please tick all options which are relevant.
+
+- [ ] Bug fix
+- [ ] New feature
+- [ ] Requires documentation updates
+
+## Testing
+
+Please describe the test(s) that you added and ran to verify your changes.
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] I have read the contribution guide recently

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Overview  
+
+Thank you for investing your time in contributing to our project! There are
+numbers of ways to contribute to the project and we appreciate all of them. If
+you like the project please give CppInterOp a star.
+
+Any contribution to open source makes a difference!
+
+## Are you new to open source, git or GitHub?
+
+To get an overview of the project, read the [README](README.md). Here are some
+resources to help you get started with open source contributions:
+
+- [Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/finding-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-on-github)
+- [Set up Git](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/set-up-git)
+- [GitHub flow](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/github-flow)
+- [Collaborating with pull requests](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-pull-requests)
+
+## Are you a contributor looking for a challenging summer project?
+
+Various opportunities such as information about google summer of code is
+generally published on the [Compiler Research Open Projects page](https://compiler-research.org/open_projects).
+If you have used CppInterOp and you have particular project proposal please reach out.
+
+## Ways to contribute
+
+### Submit a bug report
+
+If something does not seem right [search if an issue already exists](https://docs.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-on-github/searching-on-github/searching-issues-and-pull-requests#search-by-the-title-body-or-comments)  
+in [CppInterOps issue tracker](https://github.com/compiler-research/CppInterOp/issues). If a related issue doesn't exist, you can open a  
+new issue using a relevant [issue form](https://github.com/compiler-research/CppInterOp/issues/new).
+
+### Good first issues
+
+Some issues have been marked as ["good first issues"](https://github.com/compiler-research/CppInterOp/labels/good%20first%20issue).
+These are intended to be a good place to start contributing.
+
+### Write documentation
+
+Documentation is critical for any open source project, especially for complex
+projects such as CppInterOp. We have our documentation in the repository which is then
+rendered in the [CppInterOp.readthedocs](https://cppinterop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) website.
+Documentation modifications happen by proposing a pull request.
+
+## Creating a successfull pull request
+
+To propose a code modification we use the pull requests. Pull requests which
+review quickly and successfully share several common traits:
+
+- Sharp -- intends to fix a concrete problem. Usually the pull request addresses
+  an already opened issue;
+- Atomic -- has one or more commits that can be reverted without any unwanted
+  side effects or regressions, aside from what you’d expect based on its
+  message. [More on atomic commits in git](https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/atomic-git-commits/).
+- Descriptive -- has a good description in what is being solved. This
+  information is usually published as part of the pull request description and
+  as part of the commit message. Writing good commit messages are critical. More
+  [here](https://github.blog/2022-06-30-write-better-commits-build-better-projects/)
+  and [here](https://cbea.ms/git-commit/). If your pull request fixes an existing
+  issue from the bug tracker make sure that the commit log and the pull request
+  description mentions `Fixes: #<ISSUE_NUMBER>`. That will link both and will
+  close the issue automatically upon merging.
+- Tested -- has a set of tests making sure that the issue will not resurface
+  without a notice. Usually the codecov bots annotate the code paths that are
+  not tested in the pull request after being run.
+- Documented -- has good amount of code comment. The test cases are also a good
+  source of documentation. [Here](https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/23/best-practices-for-writing-code-comments/)
+  is a guideline about how write good code comments. [Here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered)
+  are examples of what *not* to write as a code comment.
+
+### Developer Documentation  
+
+We have documented several useful hints that usually help when addressing issues
+as they come during developement time in our [developer documentation](https://cppinterop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/InstallationAndUsage.html).