Documentation to help windows contributors #2841
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This PR is in follow up to the discussion in issue #2828
This introduces a new section in contributing.md for developers using windows machine to help them contribute to this project without relying on workarounds.
Tests:
Below are the screenshot that shows that the steps followed enable devs to use the scripts in the repo as is:
Running Prettier

This shows that windows bash is able to understand unix based paths and patterns without any changes.
Running .sh scripts in tasks folder

This shows that windows bash is able to run the scripts out of the box.