In the past we allowed a lot of leeway when referring to our
web-interface to the Lumiera Git repositories (git.lumiera.org/gitweb)
Unfortunately this caused the AI scraper bots »out there« to capture
millions of URLs for all the different flavours of spelling them out.
And now they haunt our website and try to scrap that content again and again;
even while we effectively prevent that kind of abuse, rejecting those
ongoing attempts at content-scraping causes a dangerously high amount of traffic.
With this changeset, all cross references in the documentation section
are rewritten to the only remaining valid form of that Gitweb URL.
This is a **preview release** — Lumiera is not usable yet.
Publication was again motivated by a series of major upgrades and clean-up.
Compilation now requires C++23 and Debian/Trixie is considered the reference
platform. The GUI is connected to the core over an asynchronous messaging
bus and the timeline display has been reshaped to accommodate flexibly
nested structures of media content, instructed by the session through
a series of _diff messages_. A scheduler has been implemented to drive
the Render Engine, but the connection to the player and UI for output
is yet unfinished.
...and split-out the description of preview-releases,
since that rather belongs into some kind of changelog (NEWS).
Furthermore, check the links to the build dependencies
__Explanation__: in line with the Git-flow scheme, the version number
embedded in-tree will now indicate the ''expected next release version,''
yet marked with a suffix `~dev` (which sorts ''before'' this version number)
Starting with ''preview release'' `v0.pre.04`, branch and version tags
will be handled in accordance to the **Git-flow** naming scheme.
Notably this implies that from now on the version in-tree will indicate
the ''next expected release,'' adorned by a suffix to mark the preview.
To accommodate this transition to Git-flow
- the new branch `integration` will be introduced
- the version number will once (and the last time for this release)
be adjusted ''before'' forking the release branch
- branch `master` will transition to reflect the latest released state
- several existing branches will be discontinued, notably
`gui`, `steam`, `vault`, `release`, `play`
This is a development snaphot pre release of Lumiera.
It features codebase maintenance, upgrade to C++14 and GTK-3
and some work towards a Proc-GUI connection (unfinished)
Update README, AUTHORS, LICENSE and similar release docs.
