Add Standardize Python project configuration developer guide (#1830)

* Add Standardize project configuration

* Add Standardize Python project configuration developer guide
- Closes #1827

* - s/`meta`/`plone/meta`
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* Remove activate step, adjust commands to include path to binaries

* Reword monorepo definition

* Update docs/developer-guide/standardize-python-project-configuration.md

Co-authored-by: Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org>

* Update tips submodules/plone.restapi submodules/volto

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Co-authored-by: Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org>

Author: stevepiercy

docs/developer-guide/index.md

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docs/developer-guide/standardize-python-project-configuration.md

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+    "description": "Standardize project configuration in Plone with plone/meta"
+    "property=og:description": "Standardize project configuration in Plone with plone/meta"
+    "property=og:title": "Standardize project configuration in Plone with plone/meta"
+    "keywords": "Plone 6, standardize, project, configuration, development, plone/meta"
+---
+
+# Standardize Python project configuration
+
+This part of the documentation describes how to standardize Python project configuration in Plone.
+It does not cover the following.
+
+-   Volto or any other JavaScript-based project, which has its own ecosystem.
+-   Monorepo projects with backend and frontend code bases, such as those created by [Cookieplone](https://github.com/plone/cookieplone).
+    Repositories must have a single Python package at the top level.
+-   Projects that support multiple versions of Plone in the same branch.
+
+Plone consists of hundreds of projects.
+To lessen the effort of configuring a new project in the Plone GitHub organization, and to keep these projects current with latest configuration practices, the Plone community agreed upon a trusted set of configuration items.
+The Plone community manages these configuration items using the [`plone/meta`](https://github.com/plone/meta) project.
+
+You can follow these practices in your own projects, or suggest new or alternative configuration items through the `plone/meta` repository, sharing them with the rest of the Plone community.
+
+```{seealso}
+See also [`plone/meta` documentation](https://github.com/plone/meta?tab=readme-ov-file#setup) for setup and usage.
+```