Add note on contributing to HBase under dev and the newly minted 'beginner' label

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<para>This chapter will be of interest only to those building and developing Apache HBase (i.e., as opposed to
just downloading the latest distribution).
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<section xml:id="dev.contributing">
<title>Contributing</title>
<para>
If you are looking to contribute to Apache HBase, look for issues in JIRA
tagged with the label 'beginner': <link xlink:href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20HBASE%20AND%20labels%20in%20(beginner)">project = HBASE AND labels in (beginner)</link>. These are issues HBase contributors have
deemed worthy but not of immediate priority and a good way to ramp on
HBase internals<footnote><para>See <link xlink:href="http://search-hadoop.com/m/DHED43re96">What label is used for issues that are good on ramps for new contributors?</link>
from the dev mailing list for background.</para></footnote>.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="repos">
<title>Apache HBase Repositories</title>
<para>There are two different repositories for Apache HBase: Subversion (SVN) and Git.