v1.0.0.dev20: Code cleanup and pyproject modernization

This release introduces an updated project layout:

• use uv instead of bare-metal python pip for development
• use ruff for linting and formatting

CI pipelines

Additions also include new CI/CD pipelines to automatically check and test the project's code base.

• ci-docs: updated documentation job
• ci-test: run pytest
• ci-lint: validate source code format conformance
• Updates to wheel-publish include changes introduced while changing to uv

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Full Changelog: v1.0.0.dev19...v1.0.0.dev20