build: keep dependency locking, drop nebula.release (into #68)

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AI-assisted change proposal. Filed by agent driven by @Cervator via GDD.

Summary

Targets #68's branch, not master: it keeps the dependency locking half of #68 and removes the nebula.release half, so #68 can land as a locking-only change.

• Terasology (engine/module.txt), gestalt (gradle.properties) and CrashReporter (gradle.properties) all carry a hand-edited -SNAPSHOT version that Jenkins publishes from the long-lived branches. That is the community's one release convention today, and adopting tag-driven versioning in a small utility first would leave it the odd repo out.
• With nebula active, the existing Jenkinsfile's plain publish on master resolves to 5.2.0-dev.9+c305ae6 (checked with :cr-core:properties on this branch), so the 5.2.0-SNAPSHOT stream Artifactory holds today would stop updating and a new dev version would land per merge.
• If the community moves to tag-driven releases later, that wants a written process across repos first; this repo would then be a fine second adopter.

Dependency locking is unaffected and stays exactly as #68 wrote it, including -PnoLock.

Test plan

• ./gradlew dependencies --write-locks regenerated buildscript-gradle.lockfile to the empty classpath; subproject lockfiles unchanged.
• ./gradlew build compiles and verifies locks. The three ErrorMessagePanel* test failures seen locally are the Windows temp-dir issue fixed in fix(reporter): PasteBin upload - timeout, missing Jackson dep, silent failures #70, which this branch predates.

Related

• Into build: add nebula.release versioning and dependency locking #68. After merging this, build: add nebula.release versioning and dependency locking #68 still needs a rebase onto master and --write-locks to pick up fix(reporter): PasteBin upload - timeout, missing Jackson dep, silent failures #70's Jackson dependencies.

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