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Rewrites the organization profile README to match the new website, and replaces the static banner with an animated one.

README (74 → 33 lines)

  • One sentence on what cpp-linter does, then a row of links: Website, Get started, Showcase, Discussions, Sponsor. They replace the six badges; the MIT badge is gone because not every repository is MIT (clang-tools-docker is Apache, the static binaries are Unlicense).
  • "Pick where the checks run" uses the four entry points and wording from the home page, and now includes the cpp-linter CLI, which the old table left out. The other install channels are one sentence.
  • No emoji headings; the maintainers table becomes one line in the footer. The pinned repositories already show under the README on the organization page, so it no longer lists every repository.

Banner (assets/profile-banner-light.svg, assets/profile-banner-dark.svg, about 61 KB each)

  • A <picture> element picks the light or dark file from the viewer's GitHub theme.
  • A 21-second loop through cpp-linter-action's features, named as in its README, each with the input that turns it on: Annotations (file-annotations), Thread Comment (thread-comments), Step Summary (step-summary), Pull Request Review (tidy-review, then format-review with the suggestion being committed), and Auto-fix (auto-fix). The strings come from cpp-linter and the action's defaults; file names and counts are sample data.
  • Fonts (Bricolage Grotesque, Instrument Sans, JetBrains Mono, SIL OFL) are subset to the characters used and embedded, and the logo is embedded, so the files load nothing else.
  • With "reduce motion" turned on, the banner stays on the tidy-review scene.

Checked by opening the SVG files in a browser and seeking the animation to each scene, in both themes.

Generator (branding/profile-banner/)

  • generate.py draws both banners and writes them to assets/. It embeds logo-72.png (branding/logo.png at 72 px) and subsets the fonts in fonts/ (SIL OFL, license texts included). Running uv run branding/profile-banner/generate.py reproduces the committed SVG files byte for byte.
  • branding/README.md lists the banner and explains how to regenerate it.

assets/readme-banner.png and assets/readme-banner-small.png are removed; nothing in the organization references them any more.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added animated profile banners in light and dark themes, showing cpp-linter review workflows.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the project profile with links to the website, guides, showcase, discussions, and sponsorship.
    • Added a quick-reference table matching common cpp-linter use cases with projects and starter commands.
    • Clarified available distribution options and when cpp-linter runs.
    • Documented the profile banners and how to regenerate them after copy or color changes.

Rewrites the organization profile README to match the new website, and replaces the static banner with an animated one.

**README** (74 → 33 lines)
- One sentence on what cpp-linter does, then a row of links: Website, Get started, Showcase, Discussions, Sponsor. They replace the six badges; the MIT badge is gone because not every repository is MIT (clang-tools-docker is Apache, the static binaries are Unlicense).
- "Pick where the checks run" uses the four entry points and wording from the home page, and now includes the `cpp-linter` CLI, which the old table left out. The other install channels are one sentence.
- No emoji headings; the maintainers table becomes one line in the footer. The pinned repositories already show under the README on the organization page, so it no longer lists every repository.

**Banner** (`assets/profile-banner-light.svg`, `assets/profile-banner-dark.svg`, about 55 KB each)
- A `<picture>` element picks the light or dark file from the viewer's GitHub theme.
- A 16-second loop through the four ways cpp-linter reports on a pull request: annotations in the diff, the "Cpp-Linter Report" comment, a clang-format suggestion being committed, and the auto-fix commit `style: apply clang-format fixes`. The strings come from cpp-linter and the action's defaults; file names and counts are sample data.
- Fonts (Bricolage Grotesque, Instrument Sans, JetBrains Mono, SIL OFL) are subset to the characters used and embedded, and the logo is embedded, so the files load nothing else.
- With "reduce motion" turned on, the banner stays on the suggestion scene.

Checked by opening the SVG files in a browser and seeking the animation to each scene, in both themes.

`branding/README.md` lists the new banner. `assets/readme-banner.png` and `assets/readme-banner-small.png` are no longer used by the profile; they are left in place.
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The profile README now presents cpp-linter information, use cases, distribution options, maintainers, and sponsorship. The branding documentation describes the light- and dark-theme animated banners and how to regenerate them. A script generates the banners with embedded logo and subset fonts.

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Profile page and banners

Layer / File(s) Summary
Banner generation and supporting assets
branding/profile-banner/generate.py, branding/profile-banner/fonts/*, branding/README.md
The script generates light- and dark-theme animated SVG banners with embedded logo and subset fonts. The README documents the banner assets and regeneration command. The font files contain SIL Open Font License 1.1 text.
Profile page and banner references
profile/README.md
The profile README presents cpp-linter information, links, use cases and starter commands, distribution options, maintainers, and sponsorship. It uses the light- and dark-theme banners.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 25bd3

The new profile page and banners are mostly ready. Two small fixes remain. On Windows, regenerating the banners can produce an SVG that browsers cannot parse. The first scene's annotation cards also flicker each time the animation loops. Both fixes are one-line or small changes and are worth making before merge.

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- Line 27: Update the profile README location in the “Profile banner (animated)”
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Comment thread branding/README.md Outdated
The profile README now uses assets/profile-banner-light.svg and assets/profile-banner-dark.svg, and nothing else in the organization references these two files.
branding/profile-banner/generate.py draws both animated banners and writes
them to assets/. It embeds logo-72.png and subsets the fonts in
profile-banner/fonts (SIL Open Font License, texts included). Running it
reproduces the committed SVG files byte for byte.

The branding README row now points at profile/README.md, the file's path in
this repository.
The banner now uses the cpp-linter-action README's names, so readers can
find each feature there. Each scene is titled like the README section and
shows the input that turns it on:

- Annotations (file-annotations)
- Thread Comment (thread-comments)
- Step Summary (step-summary), new
- Pull Request Review (tidy-review), new
- Pull Request Review (format-review)
- Auto-fix (auto-fix)

Six scenes of 3.5 seconds make a 21-second loop. Without animation the
banner shows the tidy-review scene.

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- Line 500: Update the SVG output in the code around `out.write_text(svg)` to
write UTF-8 bytes with `Path.write_bytes`, ensuring the file encoding and
newline bytes are platform-independent.
- Around line 431-434: Update the keyframe generation in the ENTRIES loop so
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for name, (scene, at) in ENTRIES.items():
t = scene * SCENE_SECONDS + at
k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{{opacity:0;transform:translateY(6px)}}"
f"{pct(t + 0.4)},100%{{opacity:1;transform:translateY(0)}}}}")

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Hide the scene 0 entries while scene 0 fades in at the end of the loop.

The cl-a1 and cl-a2 keyframes hold opacity:1 from t + 0.4 through 100%. From CYCLE - fade to 100%, cl-s0 fades scene 0 back in (Line 419), and both annotation cards are still fully visible. At the loop restart, 0% sets them to opacity:0 at once. They then slide in again at 0.6 s and 1.5 s. So on every loop, the cards appear briefly, disappear suddenly, and then animate in again.

The same wrap-around does not show for entries in scenes 1–5. Their groups are invisible at the restart.

For entries of scene 0, return to the hidden state before the final fade starts:

🐛 Proposed fix
     for name, (scene, at) in ENTRIES.items():
         t = scene * SCENE_SECONDS + at
-        k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{{opacity:0;transform:translateY(6px)}}"
-                 f"{pct(t + 0.4)},100%{{opacity:1;transform:translateY(0)}}}}")
+        hidden = "{opacity:0;transform:translateY(6px)}"
+        shown = "{opacity:1;transform:translateY(0)}"
+        if scene == 0:
+            # scene 0 fades in at the end of the loop; keep its entries hidden then
+            k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{hidden}{pct(t + 0.4)},"
+                     f"{pct(CYCLE - fade - 0.01)}{shown}{pct(CYCLE - fade)},100%{hidden}}}")
+        else:
+            k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{hidden}{pct(t + 0.4)},100%{shown}}}")
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for name, (scene, at) in ENTRIES.items():
t = scene * SCENE_SECONDS + at
k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{{opacity:0;transform:translateY(6px)}}"
f"{pct(t + 0.4)},100%{{opacity:1;transform:translateY(0)}}}}")
for name, (scene, at) in ENTRIES.items():
t = scene * SCENE_SECONDS + at
hidden = "{opacity:0;transform:translateY(6px)}"
shown = "{opacity:1;transform:translateY(0)}"
if scene == 0:
# scene 0 fades in at the end of the loop; keep its entries hidden then
k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{hidden}{pct(t + 0.4)},"
f"{pct(CYCLE - fade - 0.01)}{shown}{pct(CYCLE - fade)},100%{hidden}}}")
else:
k.append(f"@keyframes cl-{name}{{0%,{pct(t)}{hidden}{pct(t + 0.4)},100%{shown}}}")
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Update the keyframe generation in the ENTRIES loop so scene 0 entries become
hidden before the final scene 0 fade-in and remain hidden through the loop
restart; preserve the existing animation for entries in scenes 1–5. Use the
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svg = (f'<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="{W}" height="{H}" viewBox="0 0 {W} {H}" '
f'role="img" aria-labelledby="{c["_id"]}-t {c["_id"]}-d"><style>{style}</style>{bodies[name]}</svg>\n')
out = ASSETS / f"profile-banner-{name}.svg"
out.write_text(svg)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Write the SVG as UTF-8 bytes. Do not use the platform default encoding.

Path.write_text(svg) uses the locale encoding and translates newlines. The SVG text contains a non-ASCII character: · at Line 324 ("auto-fix · 2 files changed"). esc() does not escape ·, because html.escape escapes only &<>"'.

  • Encoding: On Windows the default encoding is cp1252. It writes · as the single byte 0xB7. The SVG has no XML declaration, so parsers read it as UTF-8. A lone 0xB7 is invalid UTF-8, so browsers reject the whole file and the profile README shows a broken image.
  • Newlines: On Windows, the trailing \n becomes \r\n. The output then differs from the committed files, which breaks the byte-for-byte claim in the PR.

Line 501 already measures the size with svg.encode(), which is UTF-8. Writing the same bytes keeps the reported size and the file consistent. write_text(..., newline=...) requires Python 3.10, and the script declares requires-python = ">=3.9". So use write_bytes.

🐛 Proposed fix
-        out.write_text(svg)
+        out.write_bytes(svg.encode("utf-8"))
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