make first-time contributing more concise

[zacharyburnett]

Resolves JP-nnnn

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Tasks

• If you have a specific reviewer in mind, tag them.
• add a build milestone, i.e. Build 12.0 (use the latest build if not sure)
• Does this PR change user-facing code / API? (if not, label with no-changelog-entry-needed)
  • write news fragment(s) in changes/: echo "changed something" > changes/<PR#>.<changetype>.rst (see changelog readme for instructions)
  • update or add relevant tests
  • update relevant docstrings and / or docs/ page
  • start a regression test and include a link to the running job (click here for instructions)
    • Do truth files need to be updated ("okified")?
      • after the reviewer has approved these changes, run okify_regtests to update the truth files
• if a JIRA ticket exists, make sure it is resolved properly

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 85.65%. Comparing base (1193035) to head (a249bcb).
⚠️ Report is 19 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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- Coverage   85.72%   85.65%   -0.07%     
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  Files         367      365       -2     
  Lines       38235    38171      -64     
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- Hits        32776    32696      -80     
- Misses       5459     5475      +16     

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