Maintenance of README, CHANGELOG, CONTRIBUTING, and scm system

[EiffL]

This pull request updates the documentation and configuration to improve the development workflow and clarify project practices. The most significant changes include switching from Black to Ruff for code linting and formatting, updating setup instructions for contributors, and revising the changelog process.

Development workflow and code style:

• Updated all references and instructions from Black to Ruff for code linting and formatting, including changes in CONTRIBUTING.md and the badge in README.md. Pre-commit hooks now run Ruff automatically, and contributors are instructed to use Ruff for checking and formatting code. [1] [2] [3]
• Updated the development setup instructions to recommend using a virtual environment, installing development dependencies, and enabling pre-commit hooks. Corrected minor typos and improved clarity in the contributor workflow. [1] [2]

Changelog and project configuration:

• Changed the CHANGELOG.md to direct users to GitHub Releases for the changelog, instead of maintaining a manual changelog in the file.
• Fixed a typo in the [tool.setuptools_scm] section header in pyproject.toml for proper package version management.

[codspeed-hq]

CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging this PR will not alter performance

_{Comparing update-docs-ruff-and-changelog (eddd75c) with main (16e5e32)¹}

Summary

✅ 31 untouched benchmarks

Footnotes

1. No successful run was found on main (eddd75c) during the generation of this report, so 16e5e32 was used instead as the comparison base. There might be some changes unrelated to this pull request in this report. ↩