# 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 Do not publish a draft, pilot-only artifact, or placeholder metadata.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

- [x] 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.