More refined guidance for Release Manager Associates

[Bubblemelon]

As mentioned in this comment:

The branch management handbook needs a more thorough section for shadows on:

• What they might learn
• Contributor ladder
• How to contribute to ongoing tasks e.g. allow shadows to run ./branchff, run a mock build, help with release verification (or write a script for that), etc.
• Skills required (although I think the "Minimum skills and requirements" section of the handbook seems sufficient - putting this on here for thoughts)
• Making sure this does get missed out i.e. debugging release tools [src]

Continuation of #666

CC: @idealhack @SlickNik @vivektaparia @chrisz100

[SlickNik]

Thanks for creating this issue @Bubblemelon!

Here are some of my thoughts on this:

• It would be good to include a section about what one might learn as a 'Release Manager Associate' (formerly Branch Manager Shadow) - in addition to the expectations section, having this defined a bit more concretely would be helpful.
• Having a section on how to contribute would also be great; one thing that this will help iron out is ensuring that 'Release Manager Associates' have the appropriate permissions needed to run necessary tasks (e.g. ./branchff).
• Agree on the skills comment; imho the skills outlined in the 'Minimum skills and requirements section' seem sufficient.

I'm happy to help put together something for some combination of 1, 2 above - let me know what you think.

[justaugustus]

@Bubblemelon @idealhack @SlickNik -- allow me to take a run at this.
I plan to take a look at the Branch Manager and Patch Release handbooks and try to distill out:

• An onboarding guide, with lists to join, access requirements, expectations/requirements for team members, common set of tools we use
• Dedupe data between the two handbooks

/assign
/area release-eng
/priority important-soon
/milestone v1.16

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