fixup! EDU-1951: Addresses reviewer feedback

Author: franrob-projects

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+1. Fork it
+2. When pulling to local, make sure to also pull the `ably-common` repo (`git submodule init && git submodule update`)
+3. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
+4. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
+5. Ensure you have added suitable tests and the test suite is passing(`bundle exec rspec`)
+6. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
+7. Create a new Pull Request
+
+---
+
+## Release process
+
+This library uses [semantic versioning](http://semver.org/). For each release, the following needs to be done:
+
+1. Create a branch for the release, named like `release/1.2.3` (where `1.2.3` is the new version number)
+2. Update the version number in [version.rb](./lib/ably/version.rb) and commit the change.
+3. Run [`github_changelog_generator`](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator) to automate the update of the [CHANGELOG](./CHANGELOG.md). This may require some manual intervention, both in terms of how the command is run and how the change log file is modified. Your mileage may vary:
+   - The command you will need to run will look something like this: `github_changelog_generator -u ably -p ably-ruby --since-tag v1.2.3 --output delta.md --token $GITHUB_TOKEN_WITH_REPO_ACCESS`. Generate token [here](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?description=GitHub%20Changelog%20Generator%20token).
+   - Using the command above, `--output delta.md` writes changes made after `--since-tag` to a new file
+   - The contents of that new file (`delta.md`) then need to be manually inserted at the top of the `CHANGELOG.md`, changing the "Unreleased" heading and linking with the current version numbers
+   - Also ensure that the "Full Changelog" link points to the new version tag instead of the `HEAD`
+4. Commit this change: `git add CHANGELOG.md && git commit -m "Update change log."`
+5. Ideally, run `rake doc:spec` to generate a new [spec file](./SPEC.md). Then commit these changes.
+6. Make a PR against `main`. Once the PR is approved, merge it into `main`.
+7. Add a tag to the new `main` head commit and push to origin such as `git tag v1.0.3 && git push origin v1.0.3`.
+8. Visit [https://github.com/ably/ably-ruby/tags](https://github.com/ably/ably-ruby/tags) and `Add release notes` for the release including links to the changelog entry.
+9. Run `rake release` to publish the gem to [Rubygems](https://rubygems.org/gems/ably).
+10. Release the [REST-only library `ably-ruby-rest`](https://github.com/ably/ably-ruby-rest#release-process).
+11. Create the entry on the [Ably Changelog](https://changelog.ably.com/) (via [headwayapp](https://headwayapp.co/)).