Style: updates a git commit template

A nice readable git history is always appreciated. By nudging people in
using our template, we hope to achieve that. Through the inclusion of a
CONTRIBUTING.md we hope to make that easier.

 - Fixes #8845

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+# Contributed Files
+
+## Commit Template
+
+To install our commit template, use following command (use --global to use it in your global .gitconfig):
+
+    git config [--global] commit.template "~/path_to_leap_platform/contrib/leap-commit-template"
+
+## Signing commits
+
+We very much appreciate signed commits, you can stop forgetting it like this:
+
+    git config [--global] commit.gpgSign