chore: clean repository root artifacts (#967)

Move retained references under docs, remove completed issue and PR notes, ignore logs, and relocate the SVG generator.

Closes #963

Author: byteMara

.gitignore

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 *.pem
 
 # debug
+*.log
 npm-debug.log*
 yarn-debug.log*
 yarn-error.log*