Add documentation for Self-Managed Trial Guidelines
Why is this change being made?
The SaaS Trial Guidelines was recently added to handbook. This guideline is meant to help users on Self-Managed get started with a trial and provide them with their options.
Edit: Everything below the "Populating your group with project data" section is copied from the SaaS Trial guidelines, as well parts recommending the separation between production data and trial data.
This guide helps to differentiate the different trial options between Self-Managed and SaaS. For example, it is currently not possible to do a trial in your SaaS namespace if it has a subscription, however it is possible in Self-Managed.
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Edited by Jerez Solis