docs: Revamp main README.md and update docs. #1447
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This revamps the main
README.md
file in an attempt to provide a more user-friendly introduction to the software and why someone would want to run it and also updates thedocs/README.md
to remove some sections that do not apply to Decred and update some others to reflect reality.It also adds minimum recommended specifications for
dcrd
to the mainREADME.md
and updates the build instruction for module-aware builds and the recent changes therun_test.sh
script.Finally, it updates the contact information to point to the decred.org/community page.