disable macos jobs for the time being

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1711

this disables all the macOS jobs as the macOS builders are currently
down for update, we did hope to get more notice in order to prepare
better. these jobs will be renabled once the builders are back.

Drop support for python < 3.7 for the wheels

Closes #476

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1707

add releases and building info to README.md

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1688

as per NEP 29, closes #476
[skip compiler] [skip conda] [skip coverage] [skip debian] [skip docs] [skip integration] [skip lint] [skip platform] [skip rhel]

burca: replace string coinc test's ntuple_compare() with a modified ranking statistic

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1704

- move ntuple_comparefunc from StringCuspCoincTables to StringCoincParamsDistributions.__call__()
- addresses a FIXME

XLALGenerateSimBurst():  add support for Cherenkov bursts

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1703

lalapps/src/pulsar/HeterodyneSearch: only run test if HAVE_PYTHON

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1702

Fix compilation error in lalpulsar test with gcc-11

Closes #473

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1701

Only run lalapps MakeSFTDAG test script if we actually have python

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1700

Only run lalapps SFTTools python test script if we actually have python

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1699

it works now!

.gitlab-ci.yml: retry running jobs on some failure types

Closes #407 and #307

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1698

fixes #473

Fix a bunch of doxygen issues in lalsimulation

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1691

update clang nightly builds

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1692

Fix typo in LALSUITE_CHECK_GSL_VERSION that breaks cross compiling

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1696

Remove lalpulsar RPM requirement on fftw-static

Closes #462

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1697

fixes #462

lalpulsar/lib/SFTReferenceLibrary: cite SFT spec DCC document

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1689

- No need to include SCCB commentary, or doxygenised version of spec
- Fix up Doxygen in SFTReferenceLibrary.[ch] to integrate into library docs

lalapps_splitSFTs: preserve misc description field from original SFT filenames, modify "NB" naming convention to remove underscores

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1687

no longer supported upstream

that are failing the gcc:11 job

Switch to stable release for delocate

Closes #472

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1685

Makefakedata_v5: promote randSeed and sourceDeltaT from developer to regular options

See merge request lscsoft/lalsuite!1680

 - and add pointer to where sourceDeltaT defaults are defined in XLALGeneratePulsarSignal()

- Also modify naming convention so that narrow-band frequency/width spec is
  just one token within the SFT "D" field, i.e. it contains no underscores
- Update testMakefakedata_v5.sh to use new naming convention