Make Node a Page

[bep]

• Basic test and types
• Handle home page
• Handle sections
• Handle taxonomy lists
• Handle taxonomy terms
• Create pages for missing content files for sections etc.
• Get Rebuild up to speed
• Taxonomies in home page etc?
• Content and page metadata in paginator pages? Fix in Consider adding .Content and page metadata to paginator pages #2682
• Expose a GetPage(NodeType, path...) on SiteInfo or similar ...
• Handle aliases
• Handle menus
• Menu definitions in home page etc?
• Alias definitions in home page etc?
• Handle RSS
• Handle sitemaps
• Handle sections with only _index.md
• Include all node types in sitemap template, fixes Sitemap.xml should include nodes, as well as pages #1303
• Check Date, Lastmod on nodes
• Drafts etc.
• Handle 404
• Handle robots.txt
• Handle translations
• Fix the All* slices, add others? AllNodes?
• Check where vs NodeType
• Add NodeContent path setting default to /Content Fix in Add nodeContentPath setting default to /content #2680
• Node Content from themes? Fix in Support node content from themes #2681
• Do the TODO(bep) np
• Remove old and dead code
• Remove Nodes, AllNodes (=> Pages), NodeType => PageType, PageType = string, so we can query it: home, section, taxonomy, taxonomyTerm. Data.Pages => .Pages and a mild deprecation (no ERROR)
• Rename PageType=> Kind
• Update RSSlink => RSSLink in themes and test the theme site
• Compare /docs site before/after
• Check sitemap sorting / stability
• Don't write taxonomy terms page if no layout for it / i.e. how it is today
• Docs site: /tools/index.html is rendered empty
• Check multilingual _index.md
• Do Docs
• Add some lines to the release notes while it is fresh
• Check theme templates for sections etc.
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Fixes #2297

[bep]

The tests are all green -- and this actually works now. Still many loose ends to tie, but it looks promising.

And faster:

benchmark           old ns/op       new ns/op       delta
BenchmarkHugo-4     12606861551     11300837482     -10.36%

benchmark           old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkHugo-4     48522596       48506418       -0.03%

benchmark           old bytes      new bytes      delta
BenchmarkHugo-4     9800844224     9791154400     -0.10%

[bep]

Removing the Node had further positive impact on speed, I believe the value embedding created some extra copies.

This compares Hugo master with this branch:

benchmark           old ns/op       new ns/op       delta
BenchmarkHugo-4     12763741678     10800430319     -15.38%

benchmark           old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkHugo-4     48522867       42625712       -12.15%

benchmark           old bytes      new bytes      delta
BenchmarkHugo-4     9796458336     9492564016     -3.10%

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