Update contribution guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md

Clarified contribution guidelines and added information about discussing bugs or feature requests.

Signed-off-by: Marius Börschig <marius.boerschig@vector.com>

Author: MariusBgm

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 
 Welcome and thank you for your interest in contributing to the SIL Kit
 open source project.
+Since January 2026, SIL Kit is engineered and maintained by Vector and Synopsys in collaboration.
 
-We are sorry, but at the moment, we do not accept external contributions until
-we have established a contribution process. We're working behind the scenes to
-get this ready in the future. Until then, we would kindly ask you to not open pull
-requests.
+We are sorry, but at the moment, we do not accept external contributions until we have established a contribution process.
+However, you can contribute to the open-source project by creating an issue to discuss bugs or feature requests in public. 
+
+We're working behind the scenes to get this ready in the future.
+Until then, we would kindly ask you to not open pull requests.
 
 We will update this document when we are ready for your submissions.
 Thank you and stay tuned!