PUBLICATION_CHECKLIST.md

Publication checklist

This file records release blockers; it is not evidence that publication has occurred. Do not publish a draft, pilot-only artifact, or placeholder metadata.

Scientific and artifact gates

• The 24 pilot slots are complete and clean under pilot.lock.
• The protocol, task suite, schedule, analysis, and report sources are frozen and freeze.lock verifies.
• All 144 confirmatory slots resolve to valid terminal records, including any explicitly represented infrastructure outcomes; every non-final non-retryable infrastructure slot has a valid terminal-missing acknowledgement and was not retried.
• Every aborted confirmatory generation passes content-addressed archive verification and is excluded from the replacement primary analysis.
• paper.compose --mode release and paper.compose --mode verify pass over the exact raw records and artifacts.
• Privacy, license, fairness, statistics, paper/code consistency, and adversarial audits pass.
• The post-freeze release adjudication reports the frozen base gate as FAIL_KNOWN_FALSE_POSITIVES, binds only the exact entries recorded in data/publication_scan_adjudications.json, and separately reports PASS_WITH_RECORDED_EXCEPTIONS; no unmodified frozen-policy PASS is claimed.
• Every retained data/artifacts/*.patch has exactly one materialized entry in data/artifact_license_map.json; each entry resolves through the bound task manifest to one exact repository/commit rule.

Citation and Zenodo metadata

• Public author name verified as Song Luo; citation ordering is family name Luo, given name Song.
• Confirm whether an ORCID and affiliation should be included; omit both if they are not explicitly confirmed.
• Choose the immutable release version and release date.
• Finalize title, abstract, description, and keywords from the audited report, without claims stronger than the measured results.
• Reserve the Zenodo DOI before the final release commit.
• Replace the pre-publication CITATION.cff message and add the exact version, release date, DOI, and Zenodo URL.
• Prepare and independently compare the manual Zenodo deposit metadata against CITATION.cff (author, title, version, date, description, keywords, publication type, and reserved DOI). Do not add .zenodo.json: this mixed-license report artifact is deposited manually rather than through Zenodo's single-license GitHub integration.
• Keep the report text under CC-BY-4.0 and describe the repository's mixed licenses rather than declaring the whole archive CC-BY-4.0.

Exact-archive release

• Create rrrrrredy/beforedone-paper only after the audited artifact is complete.
• Commit the reserved DOI metadata and verify a clean tree.
• Tag the exact final commit and build the archive from that commit.
• Create a GitHub Release for that exact tag.
• Upload that exact archive to Zenodo, verify its checksum, then publish the record.
• Confirm the GitHub tag/release and Zenodo record resolve to the same commit and archive.
• Update rrrrrredy/rrrrrredy only after both destinations resolve: introduce the paper beside BeforeDone and link the product repository, paper repository, exact GitHub release, and Zenodo DOI.
• Do not modify the BeforeDone product repository without separate authorization.