* Made small changes in punctuation, word selection, and word order to make it easier to read and understand the README and CONTRIBUTING 'md' files.

* Made changes based on feedback from @daniel-beck.

* Update README.md
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* Update CONTRIBUTING.md
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Document the weekly release line in README and the Maintainer guide

* Update docs/MAINTAINERS.adoc

* Update README: Governance, Adopters and more links

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Update README.md
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* Add link to maintainers guideline to README

* Update README.md
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* Draft the new maintainer guide

* Maintainer guide - Apply suggestions from code review
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Maintainer guide - Replace the first role by "contributor"

* Maintainer guide - Add more details

* Maintainer guide - address some feedback

* Apply suggestions from code review by @daniel-beck
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* Update .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
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* Maintainer guide - more updates

* Maintainer Guide: Add info about the Security Releases and merges + add an explicit Jenkins LTS section

Addresses comments from @daniel-beck and @olivergondza

* Maintainer guide: reference the advisories

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Fix typos

* Expand code review goals: documentation and code styles

* Maintainer guide: Document the squash-merge policy

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Updating LICNESE section of readme.md

* Changing raw to blob in the LICENSE link.

* Add Latest release and Docker shields to README

* Use Jenkins update center as an information source

* Use Jenkins endpoits and HTTPs

* Change the badge color to retrigger CI

* Reference redirectors and jenkins.io as much as possible

* Something went wrong, so this is a troubleshooting URL

* More specific redirect URLs

Next steps will be modifying the URL when jenkins.io is ready.

https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines

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Minor changes are always good.
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Remove extra lines under each title heading (forgot to add in previous commit).

Fix grammatical/spelling errors. Paste in copy of MIT License with recommended copyright format.

Removed an extra 'of' in line#5 to fix the sentence structure.
BEFORE: 'and a number of other "of" contributors
PROPOSED: and a number of other contributors

The goals is to maintain the information about the provided plugins near to the one showed on jenkins-ci.org home.

The number of provided plugins was outdated.