Porting developer guide to source code repo from glusterdocs project

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Signed-off-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <hchiramm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/12227
Tested-by: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
Reviewed-by: Prashanth Pai <ppai@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
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+Developers
+==========
+
+### From GlusterDocumentation
+
+Contributing to the Gluster community
+-------------------------------------
+
+Are you itching to send in patches and participate as a developer in the
+Gluster community? Here are a number of starting points for getting
+involved. We don't require a signed contributor license agreement or
+copyright assignment, but we do require a "signed-off-by" line on each
+code check-in.
+
+-   [Simplified Developer Workflow](./Simplified Development Workflow.md)
+    - A simpler and faster intro to developing with GlusterFS, than the
+    doc below.
+-   [Developer Workflow](./Development Workflow.md) - this tells
+    you about our patch requirements, tools we use, and more. Required
+    reading if you want to contribute code.
+-   [License
+    Change](http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/glusterfs-license-change/) -
+    we recently changed the client library code to a dual license under
+    the GPL v2 and the LGPL v3 or later
+-   [GlusterFS Coding Standards](./coding-standard.md)
+
+Compiling Gluster
+-----------------
+
+-   [Compiling RPMS](./Compiling RPMS.md) - Step by step
+    instructions for compiling Gluster RPMS
+-   [Building GlusterFS](./Building GlusterFS.md) - How to compile
+    Gluster from source code. Including instructions for Ubuntu.
+
+Developing
+----------
+
+-   [Projects](./Projects.md) - Ideas for projects you could
+    create
+-   [Language Bindings](./Language Bindings.md) - Connect to
+    GlusterFS using various language bindings
+-   [EasyFix\_Bugs](./Easy Fix Bugs.md) - Easy to fix bugs of
+    GlusterFS. One of the best place to start contributing to GlusterFS.
+-   [Fixing issues reported by tools for static code
+    analysis](./Fixing issues reported by tools for static code analysis.md)
+    - This is a good starting point for developers to fix bugs in
+    GlusterFS project.
+-   [Backport Wishlist](./Backport Wishlist.md) - Problems fixed
+    in the master branch might need to get fixed in stable release
+    branches too.
+    The [Backport Guidelines](./Backport Guidelines.md) describe the steps that
+    branches too.
+
+Adding File operations
+----------------------
+
+-   [Steps to be followed when adding a new FOP to GlusterFS ](./adding-fops.md)
+
+Automatic File Replication
+--------------------------
+
+-   [Cluster/afr translator](./afr.md)
+-   [History of Locking in AFR](./afr-locks-evolution.md)
+-   [Self heal Daemon](./afr-self-heal-daemon.md)
+
+Data Structures
+---------------
+
+-   [inode data structure](./datastructure-inode.md)
+-   [iobuf data structure](./datastructure-iobuf.md)
+-   [mem-pool data structure](./datastructure-mem-pool.md)
+
+Find the gfapi symbol versions [here](./gfapi-symbol-versions.md)
+
+Daemon Management Framework
+---------------------------
+
+-   [How to introduce new daemons using daemon management framework](./daemon-management-framework.md)
+
+Translators
+-----------
+
+-   [Block Device Tanslator](./bd-xlator.md)
+-   [Performance/write-Behind Translator](./write-behind.md)
+-   [Translator Development](./translator-development.md)
+-   [Storage/posix Translator](./posix.md)
+-   [Compression translator](./network_compression.md)
+
+Testing/Debugging
+-----------------
+
+-   [Unit Tests in GlusterFS](./unittest.md)
+-   [Using the Gluster Test
+    Framework](./Using Gluster Test Framework.md) - Step by
+    step instructions for running the Gluster Test Framework
+-   [Our Jenkins Infrastructure](./Jenkins Infrastructure.md) - A
+    braindump of the Jenkins infrastructure we have in place for
+    automated testing
+-   [Manual steps for setting up a Jenkins slave VM in
+    Rackspace](./Jenkins Manual Setup.md) - Steps for setting up a slave
+    VM in Rackspace
+-   [Coredump Analysis](./coredump-analysis.md) - Steps to analize coredumps generated by regression machines.
+
+Bug Handling
+------------
+
+-   [Bug reporting guidelines](./Bug Reporting Guidelines.md) -
+    Guideline for reporting a bug in GlusterFS
+-   [Bug triage guidelines](./Bug Triage.md) - Guideline on how to
+    triage bugs for GlusterFS
+-   [Bug report life cycle in
+    Bugzilla](./Bug report Life Cycle.md) - Information about bug
+    life cycle
+
+Patch Acceptance
+----------------
+
+-   The [Guidelines For
+    Maintainers](./Guidelines For Maintainers.md) explains when
+    maintainers can merge patches.
+
+Release Process
+---------------
+
+-   [Versioning](./versioning.md)
+-   [GlusterFS Release Process](./GlusterFS Release process.md) -
+    Our release process / checklist