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Release readiness checklist

Status: NOT READY for a public launch. HorneroOS is a development preview that runs on the maintainers’ machines. This checklist is the single gate list for calling anything a release; an item is PASS only with linked evidence, never by intention.

Last reviewed: 2026-10-21.

Gates

  • ISO installs on clean hardware/VM — BLOCKED. Installer owned by Panda Foss; no install-to-first-boot evidence yet. HorneroOS/installer#11, HorneroOS/installer#14.
  • Boot to desktop (first boot) — BLOCKED. Depends on the installer gate; QA scenarios exist in HorneroOS/qa but no passing run against a release ISO.
  • Compositor support matrix — FAIL. Hyprland supported; Niri experimental and not validated at parity. Do not advertise parity.
  • Package integrity — FAIL. horneroctl release binaries unsigned (HorneroOS/hornero#180); AUR publishes CI checksums, no signature verification in install flows.
  • Safe updates + rollback — FAIL. Update status lanes shipped read-only (HorneroOS/hornero#216: Hornero-owned vs system vs held, surfaced in the Control Center Updates pane); snapshot and rollback backend is still a spike (HorneroOS/hornero#179), mutating lanes open (HorneroOS/hornero#62). No rollback is advertised anywhere until a backend contract passes.
  • Hermes Companion functional — PASS. Loopback gateway, manual approvals, Hornero skill, Javi chat with sessions, attachments, voice path and activity trace; verified live on the dev host. Gateway lifecycle shipped: assistant gateway start|stop|status over a user systemd unit, host-validated stop/start cycle (HorneroOS/hornero#252, closing HorneroOS/hornero#174). Setup contract + Markdown knowledge export shipped (HorneroOS/hornero#253 against HorneroOS/hornero#191); packaging the Hermes binary itself remains open on the installer track (HorneroOS/hornero#191).
  • Plugin lifecycle — PASS. horneroctl validate/install/list/enable/disable/remove with receipts and pinned revisions; shell runtime loads enabled plugins after the PluginHost delegate fix (HorneroOS/shell#269: delegates under an Item root). Live evidence: three official plugins loaded (two bar, one dashboard) via qs ipc call plugins status.
  • Extensions marketplace — PASS. HorneroOS/plugins catalogue (SHA-256 + CI), catalogue commands in horneroctl, Control Center browse/install (HorneroOS/hornero#214, HorneroOS/shell#268). Community listings not yet open (HorneroOS/shell#251).
  • Lock/session safety — PASS. Shell stop/restart refuses while locked (shell IPC probe); incident in incident-2026-10-20-session-lock-crash.md; spontaneous-crash resilience open (HorneroOS/shell#257).
  • Accessibility audit — FAIL. Accessible-name audit incomplete (HorneroOS/shell#221). Static slices landed: lock controls (shell#276), launcher rows (shell#277), dashboard cards (shell#278), shared controls (shell#279); inventory in shell docs/a11y-audit-2026-10-21.md. AT-SPI runtime passes now exist for the bar, dashboard, Control Center, launcher rows (shell#290; the earlier gap was a stale deployed checkout, not shell code) and lock content (shell#291, inert-Pam harness). The static inventory is now covered for the inventoried surfaces (Appearance rows shell#295, shared controls and Welcome cards shell#296, pane list rows shell#297). Still FAIL: the real session-lock surface, any screen-reader task-completion pass, and runtime exposure checks for collapsed-section delegates.
  • Performance baseline — FAIL. Steady-state numbers published (shell docs/perf-baselines/2026-10-21.md, HorneroOS/shell#270). Development-host measurements now exist for full-shell cold start (≈1.7 s to the bar in AT-SPI, shell#292) and frame-cost bounds for the launcher (60 Hz vsync, shell#293) and dashboard (118/120 slots, shell#294) and Control Center initial render (169/180 slots, shell#298) and lock content (171/180 slots, shell#299). Still FAIL: no disposable-QA- harness run and no performance claims are made from development-host numbers (HorneroOS/shell#47, #228).
  • Documentation — PASS. Canonical docs in this repo; website catalogue only via the pinned data pipeline.
  • QA acceptance — FAIL. HorneroOS/qa suite not green against a candidate composition; preview20 remains an unpublished candidate.

Rules

  • Never publish an ISO, screenshot, benchmark or compatibility claim whose gate is not PASS with evidence.
  • Installer gates move only with Panda Foss’s acceptance; HorneroOS does not self-certify the installer.
  • Update this file in the same PR that changes a gate’s evidence.