[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Point potential contributors to the Roadmap (PR #6543)

[Minh Nguyễn]

1ec5 left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6543)

> The roadmap also contains a completely different definition of Developer Experience than what we use here. In the roadmap, it's all about developers using the OSM data and building things on top of that (hence discussion of switch2osm, welcome mat, extract formats etc) whereas for us, Developer Experience is about making it easier for people to contribute to this codebase, e.g. installing dependencies, writing code, running tests. This again can be confusing when the roadmap is read in terms of openstreetmap-website, instead of core openstreetmap software in more general terms.

Yes, as I put together the roadmap, I heard a lot about both needs. Ultimately I ended up putting the ideas around fostering contributions to this repository under the “sustainability” banner, because I view it as even more central to keeping the lights on than the complementary goal of making OSM more approachable as a platform for other projects. I appreciate that this approach doesn’t come through very clearly though. It’s a lot easier to talk about how we want to improve the contributor experience directly in the context of this specific repository, so, here in the contributing guide. @pablobm and I have revisited this topic many times just in the last couple months and expect to in the future.

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