Download links from S3; Do not upload release assets to GitHub #2664
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We now have over 1700 release assets. GitHub releases don't handle this many assets well:
We already upload the release assets to S3 without difficulty. This PR changes the https://circuitpython.org/downloads download links to point to a CloudFront distribution (thanks @jwcooper!), aliased from the CNAME https://downloads.circuitpython.org.
We will need to figure out how to get download counts and other statistics, but AWS CloudWatch log files can do that (@jwcooper turned them on), which can then be processed by us with https://s3stat.com, https://qloudstat.com, or us directly parsing the log files.
This PR: