Aetherra 0.5.0-beta.0

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Aetherra 0.5.0 Beta Roadmap & Community Focus

This document mirrors the pinned GitHub Discussion ("0.5.0 Beta Roadmap & Community Focus"). Comment in the Discussion for alignment before starting substantial work.

🎯 Core Goals (Beta)

Pillar	Objective	Success Signal
Stability & Quality Gates	Reduce flaky / non-deterministic behaviors	All gates green 3 consecutive runs
Observability / Metrics	Close metric blind spots	No UNKNOWN in /api/health; doc patch coverage
Security & Trust	Harden signature & scan surfaces	False-positive rate < 5%; add failing-signature test
Developer Experience	Faster first contribution	Median setup <15m from clone
Plugins & Ecosystem	Primitives for safe extension	1–2 exemplar minimal plugins documented
Memory & Learning	Introspectible memory graph health	Graph consistency tests stable
Federation (Prep)	Clarify trust & handshake model	Published threat model draft
Docs & Guides	Micro-guides for high-friction tasks	5 new task guides merged

🧭 Suggested Low-Lift Contributions

Area	Starter Ideas
stability	Add snapshot replay regression test for X edge case
observability	Add metric for plugin activation count
security	Extend static scan ignore heuristics (document!)
dx	Script: validate environment & API keys in one step
plugins	Example: memory inspector (read-only)
memory	Test verifying branch node count monotonicity
docs	"Add a metric in 60s" micro-guide

🔍 Coordination Flow

1. Identify idea (issue or new)
2. Comment in Discussion thread with: scope, impact, test plan
3. Wait for lightweight ack (✅) from maintainer or two contributors
4. Open Draft PR early (label: wip)
5. Keep changes minimal & atomic

🧪 Definition of Done (Feature / Fix)

Requirement	Notes
Linked issue or roadmap item	Provide context & intent
Tests updated/added	Unless doc-only
Quality gates pass locally	Run python tools/quality_gates.py
Documentation / comments	Explain non-obvious logic
No unrelated reformatting	Keep diffs focused

🛡 Security Coordination

• Security issues: NEVER open a public issue—use the security contact link.
• Pre-disclosure discussion (non-vuln hardening ideas) welcome in Discussions.

🗓 Indicative Timeline

• Week 0–1: Community alignment & low-hanging test/docs contributions
• Week 2–3: Plugin/example + metric coverage expansion
• Week 4: Federation threat model draft + polish / stabilization

📌 Tracking Table (Copy into Discussion Comment)

### Proposal Summary
Area: (stability / observability / security / dx / plugins / memory / federation-prep / docs)
Title: <short>
Problem: <one-line>
Proposed Change: <1–3 lines>
Impact: <qualitative + any numbers>
Test Plan: <how will we know it works?>
Owner(s): @you
Status: idea | drafting | wip-pr | review | merged

🤝 Recognition

Meaningful roadmap-aligned contributions will be called out in release notes and future Hall of Fame.

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Contribute intentionally. Small, well-tested improvements compound fast. 🚀

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This discussion was created from the release Aetherra 0.5.0-beta.0.