Brooks Townsend

### Affected project(s) - [ ] documentation - [ ] examples - [ ] wasmCloud host - [X] wasmCloud CLI (wash) - [ ] wasmCloud dashboard UI (washboard) - [...

[FEATURE] Improve error output for incorrectly configured links.

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### Affected project(s) - [ ] documentation - [ ] examples - [X] wasmCloud host - [ ] wasmCloud CLI (wash) - [ ] wasmCloud dashboard UI (washboard) - [...

[CHORE] Add a README to `wasmcloud-core`

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[https://crates.io/crates/wasmcloud-core](https://crates.io/crates/wasmcloud-core) has no README! We should say something about it 😄😄

[FEATURE] Rename `Actor` to `Component`

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### Affected project(s) - [X] documentation - [ ] examples - [ ] wasmCloud host - [ ] wasmCloud CLI (wash) - [ ] wasmCloud dashboard UI (washboard) - [...

[FEATURE] Unify `wash start actor|component` and `wash start provider` into a single `wash start`

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### Affected project(s) - [ ] documentation - [ ] examples - [ ] wasmCloud host - [X] wasmCloud CLI (wash) - [ ] wasmCloud dashboard UI (washboard) - [...

[FEAT] Support sharing components/providers between manifests

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Just like named configuration can be specified solely by name, without specifying the properties, and sourced from outside of an application, it would be great to be able to share...

Moving from one version of a manifest to another, simply changing the provider reference from one reference to another isn't enough to trigger an update. You can see why, https://github.com/wasmCloud/wadm/blob/main/src/scaler/spreadscaler/provider.rs#L319,...

For projects like the https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmcloud-operator, it's critical to be able to specify additional fields in a wadm manifest in order to configure external infrastructure resources, like an endpoint in Kubernetes....

This PR is an effort to update topics, cloudevent payloads, and READMEs to make this host easy to run and simple to hook into an existing wasmCloud lattice. So far...

## Feature or Problem Fixing a few more failures that I just assumed were good since I fixed the others. ## Related Issues ## Release Information ## Consumer Impact ##...