Perform some basic housekeeping

.github/dependabot.yml

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+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: daily
+
+  - package-ecosystem: gradle
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: daily

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to MicroProfile Starter Extension for VS Code
+
+We welcome contributions, and request you follow these guidelines.
+
+ - [Raising issues](#raising-issues)
+ - [Legal](#legal)
+ - [Coding Standards](#coding-standards)
+ - [Project Setup](#project-setup)
+
+### Raising issues
+
+Please raise any bug reports on the [issue tracker](https://github.com/MicroShed/microshed-testing/issues). Be sure to search the list to see if your issue has already been raised.
+
+A good bug report is one that make it easy for us to understand what you were trying to do and what went wrong. Provide as much context as possible so we can try to recreate the issue.
+
+### Legal
+
+In order to make contribution as easy as possible, we follow the same approach as the [Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 (DCO)](https://developercertificate.org/) - that the Linux® Kernel [community](https://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin) uses to manage code contributions.
+
+We simply ask that when submitting a pull request for review, the developer
+must include a sign-off statement in the commit message.
+
+Here is an example Signed-off-by line, which indicates that the
+submitter accepts the DCO:
+
+```text
+Signed-off-by: John Doe <[email protected]>
+```
+
+You can include this automatically when you commit a change to your
+local git repository using the following command:
+
+```bash
+git commit -s
+```
+
+### Coding Standards
+
+This project contains a CI build that should run successfully.
+Upon opening a Pull Request or Merging a commit this build will run.
+If your Pull Request results in the failure of this build it will not be reviewed or merged until the failure is fixed.
+
+### Project Setup
+
+##### Requirements
+
+- JDK 8 or higher
+- Docker (daemon or desktop)
+<!-- TODO support podman/colima for builds -->
+
+##### Building project
+
+Use the gradle wrapper to build this project:
+
+```sh
+./gradlew build
+```