Properly initialize TLS var

Use traditional Bourne shell syntax for piping stdout and stderr

Add a sanity test to ensure that name aliasing rules are obeyed

Bourne shell syntax, not Bash syntax. Change "|&" to "2>&1 |" since that's the
traditional way to redirect stdout and stderr to a pipe

PHP: simplify installation

Run tests improvements

cleanup gens/ directory after nanopb check

Building protoc artifacts on Windows

Build protoc artifacts on Linux and Mac

Extract reports.xml files from docker images in reports.zip

Sanity check for version metadata

Fix C# build

TSAN/ASAN timeout and QPS rate adjustments

Proto API for LB request/responses (redux)

C# qps worker updates

More ideas page tweaks

One copy edit, two links.

Put a 900-sec timeout on the perf test.

Further improvements to Summer Of Code Ideas

An introductory paragraph, addition of required skills and likely
mentors, hyperlinks to other technologies, and copy edits.

Add a test for immediate and historic alarms