Closes #1040.

Always a good idea to quote command substitution.

Also, explicitly welcome new/beginner contributors and give them a suggested
starting point to contribute to Homebrew. Based on the boiler plate I tend to
send people to for GSoC, Outreachy or generally people who say "I want to try
and contribute to open-source".

* Include --desc in brew search help text.
* Update brew search --desc text in README.
* Remove mention of alias in brew search help text to avoid any
  confusion.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#49500.

Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>

Remove duplication, link to the API documentation more often,
tweak wording, add `@UniqMartin` as a maintainer, note `@jacknagel`'s
and `@adamv`'s significant past contributions to Homebrew, delete some
outdated or unneeded documentation, add some missing `Formula` API.
entries and simplify/improve `CONTRIBUTING.md`.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#46179.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#46618.

Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#42347.

Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#41493.

Signed-off-by: Dominyk Tiller <dominyktiller@gmail.com>

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#41443.

Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>

It's been fun.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#40914.

Signed-off-by: Xu Cheng <xucheng@me.com>

Removes an unnecessary redirect from gittip.com to gratipay.com.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#37033.

Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>

It doesn't display all formulae any more.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#33211.

This matches the new markdown styling a bit better.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#29555.

Signed-off-by: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>