doc: make developer-index.md as README

This helps to traverse the docs well as README.md is rendered
by default in github pages, and would help to provide better indexed
document for new users.

updates: bz#1193929
Change-Id: I4130dfd16aed924ecab17f96326cedb86892d6a6
Signed-off-by: Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>

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+Developers
+==========
+
+### From GlusterDocumentation
+
+Contributing to the Gluster community
+-------------------------------------
+
+Are you itching to send in patches and participate as a developer in the
+Gluster community? Here are a number of starting points for getting
+involved. We don't require a signed contributor license agreement or
+copyright assignment, but we do require a "signed-off-by" line on each
+code check-in.
+
+-   [License
+    Change](http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/glusterfs-license-change/) -
+    we recently changed the client library code to a dual license under
+    the GPL v2 and the LGPL v3 or later
+-   [GlusterFS Coding Standards](./coding-standard.md)
+
+Developing
+----------
+
+-   [Language Bindings](./Language Bindings.md) - Connect to
+    GlusterFS using various language bindings
+
+Adding File operations
+----------------------
+
+-   [Steps to be followed when adding a new FOP to GlusterFS ](./adding-fops.md)
+
+Automatic File Replication
+--------------------------
+
+-   [Cluster/afr translator](./afr.md)
+-   [History of Locking in AFR](./afr-locks-evolution.md)
+-   [Self heal Daemon](./afr-self-heal-daemon.md)
+
+Data Structures
+---------------
+
+-   [inode data structure](./datastructure-inode.md)
+-   [iobuf data structure](./datastructure-iobuf.md)
+-   [mem-pool data structure](./datastructure-mem-pool.md)
+
+Find the gfapi symbol versions [here](./gfapi-symbol-versions.md)
+
+Daemon Management Framework
+---------------------------
+
+-   [How to introduce new daemons using daemon management framework](./daemon-management-framework.md)
+
+Translators
+-----------
+
+-   [Block Device Tanslator](./bd-xlator.md)
+-   [Performance/write-Behind Translator](./write-behind.md)
+-   [Translator Development](./translator-development.md)
+-   [Storage/posix Translator](./posix.md)
+-   [Compression translator](./network_compression.md)
+
+Testing/Debugging
+-----------------
+
+-   [Unit Tests in GlusterFS](./unittest.md)
+-   [Using the Gluster Test
+    Framework](./Using Gluster Test Framework.md) - Step by
+    step instructions for running the Gluster Test Framework
+-   [Coredump Analysis](./coredump-analysis.md) - Steps to analize coredumps generated by regression machines.
+-   [Identifying Resource Leaks](./identifying-resource-leaks.md)
+
+Release Process
+---------------
+-   [Versioning](./versioning.md)