Update community onboarding documentation#1173
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The Contributor onboarding section referenced a personal blog post from ~6 years ago for "how to debug IoTDB server", which no longer matches the current codebase (reported in discussion #17575). Replace it with the maintained README and Development Guide, and restructure the section into a clear path: set up accounts -> get the code running -> understand the design -> pick a task. Also fix the WeChat official account name in the Chinese channel page (it was outdated) and remove the discontinued DingTalk group entry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make the developer mailing list the primary entry point for new contributors instead of leading with Jira/Confluence accounts. For finding tasks, list GitHub Issues before Jira. Replace the Confluence design-doc pointer with guidance to read the source together with the README, since the Confluence space is no longer actively maintained. Also convert the "download and installation" link from a relative path to the official website URL, consistent with the other links in the section. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Motivation
The Contributor onboarding section of the community page linked to a personal blog post (
my.oschina.net/...) for "how to debug IoTDB server" that is about 6 years old and no longer matches the current codebase (the oldserver/module has long been refactored intoiotdb-core/datanode). A community member reported this in discussion #17575 ("the get-started debug doc is 6 years behind").Changes
src/Community/About-the-Community.md(EN) andsrc/zh/Community/About.md(ZH): replace the outdated blog link with the maintained README (build + IDEA debugging) and the Development Guide. Restructure the Contributor section into a clear path: set up accounts → get the code running → understand the design → pick a task. Also point the QuickStart link to the stablelatestpath instead ofMaster.src/zh/Community/Feedback.md(ZH): correct the outdated WeChat official account name and remove the discontinued DingTalk group entry.These are documentation-only changes.
Closes #17575