docs: rewrite index page (including dangling links to future docs) This has been reviewed to death on the evolve-testers mailing list. I've made some minor tweaks since the last round of reviews, but the main content is the same.

syntax: re
/figures/[^/]+\.png$
^docs/build/
^docs/html/
^html/
\.pyc$
~$
\.swp$
\.orig$
\.rej$
\.err$
^tests/easy_run.sh$
^build/
^MANIFEST$
^docs/tutorials/.*\.rst$
\.ico$