Guidelines for new developer contribution

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Describe the issue:
For any new developer, it’s difficult to understand the guidelines for contribution.

=> I don’t see any guidelines about the development branch to start.

=> Every time yarn start:docker takes almost more than 20-25mins to get up. So is there any
specific system configuration for this project to run?

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