[misc] Update CONTRIBUTING.md

[mlsmaycon]

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the Slack community invitation link in the contributing guidelines, replacing the direct Slack invite URL with a link to the NetBird documentation page. This change centralizes the access point for new contributors seeking to join the community discussions and provides a more maintainable and reliable solution for long-term sustainability.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Slack workspace invitation link in the CONTRIBUTING.md file was updated from a direct join.slack.com shared invite URL to the NetBird documentation URL https://docs.netbird.io/slack-url to provide a more stable, maintainable invitation path.

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Documentation Link Update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Slack Invitation URL CONTRIBUTING.md	The Slack workspace join link is redirected through the documentation site rather than using a direct shared invite URL for better control and maintenance.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~1 minute

Suggested reviewers

• pappz
• nsadeghi97

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🐰 A link hops through the docs so neat,
Where Slack invites and contributors meet,
No more direct URLs to mend,
Just one clean path around the bend! ✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description follows the template structure but leaves critical sections empty: 'Describe your changes' and 'Issue ticket number and link' are blank, and the 'explain why' field for documentation not being needed is empty.	Fill in the 'Describe your changes' section to explain the Slack URL update, and explain why documentation changes are not needed in the designated field.
Title check	❓ Inconclusive	The title '[misc] Update CONTRIBUTING.md' is vague and generic, using '[misc]' tag without clearly conveying what was actually changed in the file.	Provide a more specific title that describes the actual change, such as '[docs] Update Slack invitation link in CONTRIBUTING.md'.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Line 11: Replace the non-descriptive link text "here" with an explicit,
accessible label (for example "NetBird Slack workspace") in the CONTRIBUTING.md
link that points to https://docs.netbird.io/slack-url; locate the anchor with
the visible text "here" and update it to a descriptive phrase so the markdown no
longer triggers MD059 and is more accessible and scannable.

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