A follow-up to #7416 and #7412.

Update tendermint to Go 1.17 because imports are easier to audit.

* Update README.md
* go mod tidy

Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@interchain.io>

This updates the Discord invite links.

Read me Introduction reframed for improving clarity

* modify readme

* add rfc and proto

* add rust=spec back to avoid breakage

* lint readme

No one knows we have this mailing list 🙈

Also adds a slightly modified version of the footer text from the docs website.

## Description

- remove circleci badge from readme

Closes: #XXX

Cleans up the grammar, removes out-of-date information, and reduces false promises.

## Description

Updates to various sections of docs. 
Fix docs deployment

Closes: #XXX

This change removes unused directories (`papers` and `research`) 
and updates the README to reflect our strategy for merging the 
informalsystems/tendermint-rs specs into this repository.

Partially addresses #121.

Assuming we don't use Riot anymore.

## Description

since 0.34 is breaking we should bump the go version to 1.14

Closes: #XXX

## Description

<img width="1140" alt="Screen Shot 2020-06-08 at 9 29 15 AM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24299864/84003556-87e85800-a96a-11ea-828b-3656f116b518.png">


Closes: #XXX

## Description

by adding paths the ci job wont run if the files aren't touched. this is a change from before where they would run to see if there were changes

Closes: #XXX

- add github actions badge for tests on master
- fix discord badge

Co-authored-by: Alessio Treglia <alessio@tendermint.com>
Co-authored-by: Anton Kaliaev <anton.kalyaev@gmail.com>

* readme: add discord to readme

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

* add our id

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

* update guides with correct path to libs/kv proto files

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-Authored-By: Anton Kaliaev <anton.kalyaev@gmail.com>

* format something to rerun ci

Co-authored-by: Anton Kaliaev <anton.kalyaev@gmail.com>

- fixed some links in the readme
- deleted some unused things from themakefile

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

replaces https://tendermint.com/docs" with "https://docs.tendermint.com/master"

- tm-bench has a deprecation warning for 5 releases now, with the major release coming I removed the file and updated the docs to point to `tm-load-test` located in the interchainio repo

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

Co-Authored-By: Marko <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

* Develop -> Master

- Some places still had develop instead of master.

closes #4107

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

* add one more

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

* state -> step

* vote -> v

* New version of the algorithm and the proof

* New version of the algorithm and the proofs

* Added algorithm description

* Add algorithm description

* Add introduction

* Add conclusion

* Add conclusion file

* fix warnings (caption was defined twice)

- only the latter is used anyways (centers captions)
- this makes it possible to autom. building the paper

* Update grammar

* s/state_p/step_p

* Address Ismail's comments

* intro: language fixes

* definitions: language fixes

* consensus: various fixes

* proof: some fixes

* try to improve reviewability

* \eq -> =

* textwrap to 79

* various minor fixes

* proof: fix itemization

* proof: more minor fixes

* proof: timeouts are functions

* proof: fixes to lemma6

* Intro changes and improve title page

* Add Marko and Ming to acks

* add readme

* Format algorithm correctly

Clarify condition semantic and timeouts

Improve descriptions

* patform -> platform

* Ensure that rules are mutually exclusive

- various clarifications and small improvements

* Release v0.6

* small nits for smoother readability

* docs: move dev sessions into docs

and transform the list into a table

* fix formatting

* ADR TOC in readme.md

* Added A TOC to the Readme.md of ADR Section

- Added table of contents to the Readme of the architecture section.
	- Easier to traverse and when you know what is there.
	- If the Adr's become viewable online it would help guide the user

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

* add tm-cmn to subprojects

* normalize word

* Update Readme and contrib. guidelines: remove traces of master

Signed-off-by: Ismail Khoffi <Ismail.Khoffi@gmail.com>

* add simple example

Signed-off-by: Ismail Khoffi <Ismail.Khoffi@gmail.com>

* update contributing.md

* add link

* Update CONTRIBUTING.md

* add a note on master and releases

Signed-off-by: Ismail Khoffi <Ismail.Khoffi@gmail.com>

* update readme