v1.8.2: French model and small improvements

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✨ Major features and improvements

• Move model shortcuts to shortcuts.json to allow adding new ones without updating spaCy.
• NEW: The first official French model (~1.3 GB) including vocab, syntax and word vectors.

python -m spacy download fr_depvec_web_lg

import fr_depvec_web_lg

nlp = fr_depvec_web_lg.load()
doc = nlp(u'Parlez-vous Français?')

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix reporting if train command is used without dev_data.
• Fix issue #1019: Make Span hashable.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Update list of available models with more information (capabilities, license).
• Update adding languages workflow with data examples and details on training.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @raphael0202 and @julien-c for the contributions!