[thatguywob]

Closes #182

Expand CONTRIBUTING.md with Homebrew setup for Intel and Apple Silicon macOS, Ubuntu/Debian packages, a local Nix development shell and pinning guidance, and a disposable Fedora Podman/Docker workflow. Include shared Rust setup, native-library and runtime-plugin verification, a headless render check, and troubleshooting for GTK versions, codecs, architectures, scripting, and GPU/display availability.

Call out the current libadwaita >= 1.8 UI requirement and distinguish native development guidance from the Fedora CI/release environment. Keep the Flatpak manifest as the canonical shipped dependency list.

Validation: git diff --check and both schema-copy comparisons passed. Attempted the prescribed Clippy, unit-test, and release-build commands; all were unavailable because this host has no cargo. The new platform setup commands have not been executed on macOS, Ubuntu, or NixOS; package names and workflows were checked against repository configuration and upstream package documentation.

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[hanthor]

Read the docs: the libadwaita >= 1.8 requirement matches Cargo.toml (v1_8 feature), the Fedora/CI package statement matches ci.yml, and the render invocation (render <output.mp4>) matches the usage in bin/render.rs. Docs-only; no fork CI ran.

[tuna-reef-hive]

@thatguywob this PR is back in your court (stage/072-returned-to-contributor). The hive will not merge it until the head changes.

Failing checks:

• ste / Simplified Technical English

Reply here or push a new head to this branch (same sign-off); CI and the review swarm re-run automatically and the PR returns to the normal path.

Queued in your relay fix queue (12 waiting): fixes are handed out before new work as soon as you have capacity.

[tuna-reef-hive]

stage 080-awaiting-merge-admission → 072-returned-to-contributor: check-failing:ste / Simplified Technical English

[tuna-reef-hive]

Head 36bf98dc7bd8 has waited on its author at stage/072-returned-to-contributor for 24h7m since the nudge (lane reason contributor-lane:no-verdict). The hive did not adopt it: it cannot push to this fork's branch, and it does not move a fork's commits into this repository.

Blocker: this PR comes from a fork (thatguywob/dualcut) and the hive cannot finish it on the fork's own branch. Moving its commits to hive/adopt-223 in this repository would run code no maintainer has reviewed with the repository's trusted CI (secrets, write tokens, no fork guards), so the hive did not. Ask (maintainer): review the change; if it should land, bring it into the repository yourself or follow the repository's process for fork pull requests, otherwise close it.

Moving to stage/085-needs-decision so a person sees it. A new head from the author returns it to the normal path.

[tuna-reef-hive]

@thatguywob is now trusted for contributor-lane merging in this hive (last 5 merged PRs: no reverts or sentinel alerts). Applies to their open and future PRs here; CI, review verdicts, diff fences, soak and branch protection still apply.

[tuna-reef-hive]

stage 080-awaiting-merge-admission → 050-review-pending: contributor-lane:no-verdict