docs(dev-guide): mention how to support new compilation targets

doc/dev-guide/src/SUMMARY.md

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 # Summary
 
 - [Introduction](index.md)
-    - [Linting](linting.md)
+  - [Linting](linting.md)
 - [Coding standards](coding-standards.md)
 - [Version numbers](version-numbers.md)
+- [Recipes](recipes.md)
 - [Release process](release-process.md)
 - [Tips and tricks](tips-and-tricks.md)
 - [Tracing](tracing.md)

doc/dev-guide/src/recipes.md

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+# Recipes
+
+This section contains some recipes for common tasks that you may want to
+perform when contributing to rustup.
+
+## Supporting a new compilation target
+
+Adding support for a new compilation target involves the following steps:
+
+1. Informing rustup of the new target:
+
+   Since you are here, it is quite likely that you are promoting a target from
+   tier 3 to tier 2. As such, it is often sufficient to just cross-compile
+   rustup from Linux to that target.
+
+   You can refer to [rustup#4688] for a practical example for this step. You
+   can find in that PR nearly all places where you would need to mention your
+   new target in the rustup codebase.
+
+   Notably, you would need to add a line in
+   `ci/actions-templates/linux-builds-template.yaml` to include it in rustup's
+   CI, while disabling the build for this target in all scenarios. At the
+   moment of writing, this is done by appending the YAML comment
+   `# skip-pr skip-master skip-stable`
+   at the end of the line when mentioning your target in that file.
+
+   [rustup#4688]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/4688
+
+2. Stabilizing the target:
+
+   When your new target reaches stable Rust, you can then enable the target in
+   certain CI scenarios, depending on the popularity of the target. At the
+   moment of writing, this is done by removing certain occurrences of `skip-*`
+   in the aforementioned YAML comment. In most cases, you would only need to
+   enable the target for the `stable` CI scenario by removing `skip-stable`.
+
+   You can refer to [rustup#4816] for a practical example for this step.
+
+   Do note that when creating the PR for this step, you will need to prove that
+   the target's CI is indeed working by removing `skip-pr` in a separate commit
+   to temporarily enable this target in this PR's CI. Once the CI is green, you
+   can send the link ([example][send-link]) to that CI run in the PR thread for
+   verification. After that, you can safely drop the temporary commit to get
+   the PR ready for merging.
+
+   [rustup#4816]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/4816
+   [send-link]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/4816#issuecomment-4263419604