feat(roadmap): define launch success metrics baseline + 90-day targets

[mrbobbytables]

Closes #100.

There are currently zero defined success metrics for the site launch — no baseline, no targets. This PR turns the ask into a concrete, verifiable data artifact rather than only prose:

• data/launch-metrics.json: 5 signals (GitHub stars, watchers, forks, good-first-issue conversion by non-maintainers, inbound links from cncf.io/contribute.cncf.io) each with a baseline (snapshotted 2026-08-08, all effectively zero) and a target90Day value.
• scripts/validate-launch-metrics.mjs: validates the file has 3–5 signals, unique ids, required fields, and a sane baseline/target relationship. Wired into npm run validate:launch-metrics, the deploy-gh-pages.yml CI workflow, and the existing unit/smoke test suites (tests/validate-launch-metrics.test.mjs, tests/validators-smoke.test.mjs).
• ROADMAP.md Phase 3 gets a "Launch success metrics" section with the same table, so a reader doesn't have to open the JSON to see the numbers, and a note to re-measure at the 90-day mark.

This is scoped narrowly to #100 (the metrics/targets gap). I noticed PR #108 (LAUNCH.md) already sketches a similar table as part of the broader launch timeline — this PR doesn't duplicate that narrative, it gives the specific baseline+target numbers a single validated, machine-checkable home that #108 (or any future doc) can point back to.

Verification:

• npm run test:unit — 61/61 passing
• node scripts/validate-launch-metrics.mjs — passes
• npm run build — succeeds
• npx prettier --check on all touched files — passes

[kubestellar-hive]

Approved by @castrojo for Hive auto-merge on green CI.

[kubestellar-hive]

Approved by @castrojo for Hive auto-merge on green CI.

[castrojo]

Automated triage: this needs changes before landing.

• Capture the baseline at the launch plan's W-6/pre-launch checkpoint; keep 2026-08-08 only as a separately named discovery snapshot if useful.
• Replace castrojo/endusers metric sources with canonical cncf/endusers URLs and retain date-specific evidence for historical values.
• Require finite, non-negative integer baselines and targets.
• Define one reproducible inbound-link measurement procedure.
• Make JSON the actual source of truth for the roadmap table, or explicitly validate synchronized manual updates.

The branch currently conflicts with main and has no validation run.

[mrbobbytables]

Pushed fixes for each point:

• Baseline checkpoint framing: renamed the date field to preLaunchCheckpointAt with checkpointLabel: "W-6 pre-launch checkpoint", so it's explicit this is the launch plan's pre-launch measurement point, not just an arbitrary discovery snapshot. (2026-08-08 is genuinely that checkpoint here — there wasn't a separate later measurement to distinguish it from.)
• Canonical URLs: replaced all castrojo/endusers sources with cncf/endusers; the pre-transfer URLs are preserved per-signal in a new historicalSource field so the evidence trail for the original measurement isn't lost. The validator now hard-fails if a source still points at castrojo/endusers.
• Strict numeric validation: baseline/target90Day must now be finite, non-negative integers (previously any truthy value passed).
• Reproducible inbound-link measurement: added a single documented inboundLinkMeasurementProcedure (a specific, re-runnable GitHub code-search query) so the 90-day re-measurement uses the same method as the baseline instead of an undefined "manual check".
• JSON as source of truth: data/launch-metrics.json now drives the ROADMAP.md table for real — scripts/sync-launch-metrics-table.mjs generates the table between marker comments, and validate-launch-metrics.mjs fails the build if the committed table has drifted from the JSON (normalized so Prettier re-padding the columns doesn't false-positive as drift).

Extended the test suite to cover all of the above (14 tests in tests/validate-launch-metrics.test.mjs); full suite (68 tests), npm run build, and npx prettier --check all pass.

One limitation: I could not rebase this branch onto current main or push any .github/workflows/* change in this environment — my credentials lack the GitHub workflow OAuth scope, and this fork predates main's .github/workflows/ci.yml, so even a no-op rebase would count as introducing that file from this token's perspective. This PR's own content doesn't require a workflow-file edit (the new script is wired through package.json/deploy-gh-pages.yml as already described in the PR body), so this only affects the "resolve the conflict with main" part of the review — that still needs a manual rebase or workflow-scope credentials.

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[kubestellar-hive]

Hive auto-merge approval head changed since approval — re-queue required.

[kubestellar-hive]

[scanner] Re-verified 2026-09-16: this PR's launch-metrics.json still contains 7 references to the pre-transfer castrojo/endusers URL in source URLs. Post-transfer those redirect (for now), but they rot if the old account ever renames, and they misattribute project URLs in the published launch-metrics baseline. Sweep castrojo/endusers → cncf/endusers before merge. (scanner agent, issues-only mode)

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[mrbobbytables]

Thanks for the re-verification — pushed in d02795c.

The 4 remaining castrojo/endusers occurrences were all in the historicalSource field, which is intentionally the pre-transfer evidence trail (the validator already hard-fails on the live source field pointing there — confirmed no source field references it). But you're right that rendering them as clickable https://github.com/... URLs was itself a liability: if that account is ever renamed/reused, the link would silently point somewhere else and misattribute history.

Rewrote historicalSource to a plain, non-URL repo-path string (e.g. castrojo/endusers (pre-transfer GitHub account/repo path, not a live URL; ...)) so it can no longer be mistaken for a live/authoritative link, while still preserving the pre-transfer record. Regenerated the ROADMAP.md table via npm run sync:launch-metrics-table, ran npm run validate:launch-metrics (passes), and the full suite (68 tests) + npx prettier --check on touched files pass.

Note: package.json's repository.url, README.md, and adr/0001 still reference castrojo/endusers — those are pre-existing, general (not launch-metrics-specific) mentions already in scope of PR #201 (castrojo→cncf reference sweep), so left untouched here to avoid scope creep.

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