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What does this PR do?

  1. Shifts to our older way of using skyrl-gym as a symlink. This is so that developers can easily modify skyrl-gym. Previously I shifted to using skyrl-gym from PyPI for cleaner installs in Use skyrl-gym from PyPI for easier dependency management #35 , but then modifications don't show up properly.

Is there a better way ? : There could be, but this is the simplest. Note that we require two things: using the latest skyrl-gym during training and modifications getting shipped appropriately with Ray. To meet both, symlink is an easy option.

  1. Adds a developer guide: Development instructions were mostly missing. Added a simple developer guide. There are two kinds of people who will be developing on skyrl-train: researchers/engineers customizing skyrl-train for their use-case and contributors looking improve skyrl-train in some way (and an overlap of both).

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… a developer guide (NovaSky-AI#71)

# What does this PR do?

1. Shifts to our older way of using skyrl-gym as a symlink. This is so
that developers can easily modify skyrl-gym. Previously I shifted to
using skyrl-gym from PyPI for cleaner installs in NovaSky-AI#35 , but then
modifications don't show up properly.

*Is there a better way ?* : There could be, but this is the simplest.
Note that we require two things: using the latest skyrl-gym during
training and modifications getting shipped appropriately with Ray. To
meet both, symlink is an easy option.

2. Adds a developer guide: Development instructions were mostly missing.
Added a simple developer guide. There are two kinds of people who will
be developing on skyrl-train: researchers/engineers customizing
skyrl-train for their use-case and contributors looking improve
skyrl-train in some way (and an overlap of both).

Preview: 

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