The CCRE: A comprehensive award-winning robot code framework

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CCRE v3.4.0 is out!

This release is from our competition season, and while it doesn't involve very much in the way of new features, it has a boatload of minor improvements and bugfixes.

Release of CCRE with API 3.4.0.

Major changes:
* Add optional Phase Verifier system

Minor changes:
* Add safe ExtendedMotor control methods
* Add unique identifiers to roboRIOs
* Support programmatic autonomous mode aborting
* Export IO subscribes through Cluck API
* Add 16-bit integer decoders to ByteFiddling
* Scale up PoultryInspector webcam views
* Raise PoultryInspector Webcam highlight components on top of everything else
* Allow DeploymentEngine users to access Emulator API
* Add view toggle button to PoultryInspector channel components
* Change default views on float components to textual
* Add startIfNotAlive to ReporterThread
* Add reset method to PIDController
* Remove CCRE 2->3 updater
* Let RS232IO extend Flushable
* Use events for flow phase cancels in Scheduler
* Improve Deployment Engine API slightly
* Add launcher for CCRE core tests
* Improve sample robot code
* Improve Javadoc slightly

Invisible changes:
* Increase priority of InstinctModule threads
* Streamline roboRIO detection in DeploymentEngine
* Improve TimelineInspector project setup
* Improve use of @Override
* Add phase annotations to a significant portion of the CCRE
* Simplify miscellaneous pieces of code
* Cache byte arrays to avoid GC churn in WebcamReader

Bugfixes:
* Ensure that the user intends to overwrite files in PoultryInspector save dialog
* Fix IO subscriber suffix confusion bug
* Fix Emulator reference issues by offloading classloading from itself
* Fix PauseTimer BooleanInput contract violation
* Fix camera over-refresh bug
* Provide consistent velocities in Emulator
* Remove extraneous logging from Emulator joysticks
* Hide NoRouteToHost log spam
* Increase length of Cluck TX queue
* Ensure that voltage logging includes the entire range
* Fix recorder printing name bug
* Fix miscellaneous Eclipse issue

Are you interested in helping develop the CCRE? Since I'll be graduating from high school, I won't have as much time to dedicate to the CCRE next year, and while we have plenty of talent ourselves to keep it maintained, we're interested in getting contributions from other teams to help us keep it going as long as possible.

If you want to help - or might want to help but aren't sure - drop me a line either here or in the FIRSTCodes Slack!