Allow empty Alt text, config management init, & automated config imports

[Infi-Knight]

PR Checklist

• Linked issue added (e.g., Fixes #123)
• If styles were updated:
  • Stylesheet version has been bumped

Summary

This PR achieves three key infrastructure and accessibility goals:

1. Accessibility: Allows decorative images to have empty alt text (alt="").
2. Infrastructure: Initializes the project's Configuration Management system by establishing a baseline synced from Production.
3. Automation: Automates configuration updates (config:import) during deployment

Changes

1. Automated Deployment Workflow (New)

sequenceDiagram
    participant GH as GitHub Actions
    participant Staging as Staging Server
    participant DB as Drupal DB

    Note over GH, DB: OLD WORKFLOW
    GH->>Staging: rsync code
    Note right of GH: 🛑 Deployment "Complete"
    Note right of Staging: Config NOT applied
    User->>Staging: SSH & run manual import
    Staging->>DB: Update Config & Schema

    Note over GH, DB: NEW WORKFLOW
    GH->>Staging: rsync code
    GH->>Staging: execute cleanup.sh
    rect rgb(200, 255, 200)
        Note right of Staging: ✅ Automatic Steps
        Staging->>DB: drush config:import -y
        Staging->>DB: drush cr
    end

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2. Accessibility Updates
   field.field.media.image.field_media_image
field.field.media.svg.field_media_svg
   Change: alt_field_required` set to false.

3. Documentation
   Added ci/CONFIG_MANAGEMENT.md: Guide for the team on how to make config changes using the UI/Drush and safe export/import procedures.

4. Reviewer Guide

Files to Ignore: You can safely IGNORE the ~1000 files in config/. These are auto-generated exports representing the current state of Production. We are committing them to establish a "Clean Baseline" so future PRs only show specific diffs.

Please focus your review on:

1. ci/deploy/staging/cleanup.sh: Automation logic added.
2. ci/deploy/production/cleanup.sh: Automation logic added.
3. config/field.field.media.image.field_media_image.yml: Verified change to alt_field_required: false.
4. ci/CONFIG_MANAGEMENT.md: New team documentation.

Verification
This has been verified on Staging using the "Break-Fix" method:

Baseline: Manually reverted Staging to require alt text.
Test: Deployed this branch via make deploy.
Result: The deployment script automatically ran config:import, and the site updated to allow empty alt text without any manual SSH intervention.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR establishes the infrastructure for Configuration Management and improves accessibility by allowing empty alt text for decorative images. It creates a synchronized configuration baseline from Production and automates the deployment workflow to eliminate manual intervention.

Changes:

• Automated deployment workflow now includes drush config:import and cache rebuild
• Accessibility improvement: decorative images can have empty alt text (alt="")
• Configuration Management baseline established with ~1000 auto-exported config files
• Added team documentation for safe config management workflows

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 300 out of 1104 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
config/*.yml	Auto-exported baseline configuration from Production (can be ignored per PR description)
ci/deploy/staging/cleanup.sh	Added automated config import and cache rebuild
ci/deploy/production/cleanup.sh	Added automated config import and cache rebuild
ci/CONFIG_MANAGEMENT.md	New documentation for config management workflows

[Infi-Knight]

moving back to draft, some content types seem to be missing from staging but are in prod. need to verify where the drift is coming from

[Anca2022]

Is it possible that this process is configured to import configuration changes only into the staging/production databases, and not into the local database?
If that is true, we need a way to import `/config' pulled from the PR into the local Db

[Infi-Knight]

most likely this was the reason, I have updated the local config path so it should not pick up the tracked config