[Repo] Update contributing guide for new projects#4311
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- Add guidance on project naming. - Add note to update the security insights file. Resolves open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet#3469.
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Pull request overview
Updates the repository’s contributing guide to better document requirements when adding new projects, aligning with current repo metadata needs.
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- Add guidance that new project/package names should follow the
OpenTelemetry.*naming scheme. - Update documentation text to consistently use “NuGet”.
- Add guidance to update the security insights metadata file when adding a new component.
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Fixes open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet#3469
Depends on #4302.
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Merge requirement checklist
Unit tests added/updatedAppropriateCHANGELOG.mdfiles updated for non-trivial changesChanges in public API reviewed (if applicable)