*: reference the CONTRIBUTING.md in the community repo (#12069)

.github/pull_request_template.md

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 <!--
-Thank you for contributing to TiDB! Please read TiDB's [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) document **BEFORE** filing this PR.
+Thank you for contributing to TiDB! Please read TiDB's [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/pingcap/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) document **BEFORE** filing this PR.
 -->
 
 ### What problem does this PR solve? <!--add issue link with summary if exists-->

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 # Contribution Guide
 
-TiDB is a community driven open source project and we welcome any contributor. The process of contributing to the TiDB project
-may be different than many other projects you have been involved in. This document outlines some conventions about development workflow, commit message formatting, contact points and other resources to make it easier to get your contribution accepted. This document is the canonical source of truth for things like supported toolchain versions for building and testing TiDB.
-
-## What is a Contributor?
-
-A Contributor refers to the person who contributes to the following projects:
-- TiDB: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
-- TiKV: https://github.com/tikv/tikv
-- TiSpark: https://github.com/pingcap/tispark
-- PD: https://github.com/pingcap/pd
-- Docs: https://github.com/pingcap/docs
-- Docs-cn: https://github.com/pingcap/docs-cn
-
-## How to become a TiDB Contributor?
-
-If a PR (Pull Request) submitted to the TiDB/TiKV/TiSpark/PD/Docs/Docs-cn projects by you is approved and merged, then you become a TiDB Contributor.
-
-You are also encouraged to participate in the projects in the following ways:
-- Actively answer technical questions asked by community users.
-- Help to test the projects.
-- Help to review the pull requests (PRs) submitted by others.
-- Help to improve technical documents.
-- Submit valuable issues.
-- Report or fix known and unknown bugs.
-- Participate in the existing discussion about features in the roadmap, and have interest in implementing a certain feature independently.
-- Write articles about the source code analysis and usage cases for the projects.
-
-## Pre submit pull request/issue flight checks
-
-Before you move on, please make sure what your issue and/or pull request is, a simple bug fix or an architecture change.
-
-In order to save reviewers' time, each issue should be filed with template and should be sanity-checkable in under 5 minutes.
-
-### Is this a simple bug fix?
-
-Bug fixes usually come with tests. With the help of continuous integration test, patches can be easy to review. Please update the unit tests so that they catch the bug! Please check example [here](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/2808).
-
-### Is this an architecture improvement?
-
-Some examples of "Architecture" improvements:
-
-- Converting structs to interfaces.
-- Improving test coverage.
-- Decoupling logic or creation of new utilities.
-- Making code more resilient (sleeps, backoffs, reducing flakiness, etc).
-
-If you are improving the quality of code, then justify/state exactly what you are 'cleaning up' in your Pull Request so as to save reviewers' time. An example will be this [pull request](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/3113).
-
-If you're making code more resilient, test it locally to demonstrate how exactly your patch changes
-things.
-
-### Does this add an error message, or configuration option?
-
-Please mention **@pingcap/usability-team** in your pull request. We can help provide suggestions on naming and style, so that the usage is clear and understandable.
-
-## Building TiDB on a local OS/shell environment
-
-TiDB development only requires `go` set-up. If you already have, simply type `make` from terminal.
-
-### Go
-
-TiDB is written in [Go](http://golang.org).
-If you don't have a Go development environment,
-please [set one up](http://golang.org/doc/code.html).
-
-The version of GO should be **1.12** or above.
-
-After installation, there are two ways to build TiDB binary.
-
-#### For a quick taste
-
-The `GOPATH` is not necessary.
-
-```
-mkdir tmp
-cd tmp
-echo 'module tidb' > go.mod
-GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/pingcap/tidb@c385cbdcca83eeed283139814a7ea149e3116e66
-GO111MODULE=on go build -o tidb-server github.com/pingcap/tidb/tidb-server
-```
-
-The `c385cbdcca83eeed283139814a7ea149e3116e66` can be changed to any other commit hash. Try the latest commit hash [here](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/commits/master).
-
-#### For development
-
-You'll need `GOPATH` defined, and `PATH` modified to access your Go binaries.
-
-A common setup is the following but you could always google a setup for your own flavor.
-
-```sh
-export GOPATH=$HOME/go
-export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
-```
-
-#### Dependency management
-
-TiDB uses [`Go Modules`](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules) to manage dependencies.
-
-## Workflow
-
-See the [Github Workflow](https://github.com/pingcap/community/blob/master/contributors/workflow.md)
-
-## Code style
-
-The coding style suggested by the Golang community is used in TiDB. See the [style doc](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments) for details.
-
-## Commit message and Pull Request style
-
-See the [Commit Message and Pull Request Style](https://github.com/pingcap/community/blob/master/commit-message-pr-style.md)
+See the [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/pingcap/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) in the
+[community](https://github.com/pingcap/community) repo.

README.md

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 ![architecture](./docs/architecture.png)
 
 ## Contributing
-Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
+Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. See
+[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/pingcap/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
 for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow.
 
 ## License