Blog from merged PR #1132

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A board that measured the game but never invited anyone in

DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft

PR: #1132

Head SHA: f22bf5d35b58c14f4f226578707bf162259ca70c

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Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author's work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.

Work report

The leaderboard draws the GitHub people behind the lanes, the roadmap turns its open-issue count into a way in, and the machine-readable rules stop claiming there is no ranking now that XP exists.

What changed

• Draw a lane holder's GitHub avatar and link their profile when the operator signed the lane as an at-login
• Validate the login again on the page rather than trusting the wire, because it becomes an href and an image source
• Put the three leaderboard numbers in one box so they cannot overlap when a row wraps on a phone
• Turn the roadmap's count of open port issues into a button that opens the real GitHub search
• Say on the roadmap that the work is one file per issue and needs neither permission nor prior t27
• Correct the onboarding spec, which stated there was no reward, no token and no ranking
• State the XP rule, both addresses and the fact that XP buys nothing, where the spec's own tests check it
• Add a seventh way in for a person who would rather lend a provider key than write code
• Publish a bilingual tutorial that explains the game, every tab of the board, the seven laws and both ways in
• State in that tutorial what each provider agreement actually says about handing a key to somebody else, quoting it

Context and reasoning

A leaderboard of key numbers is a log; a leaderboard of faces is an invitation, and the connection to GitHub was there all along.

The login is checked twice because it becomes a profile link, and a page that trusts a remote string can be pointed at a stranger's account.

The roadmap counted how far the rewrite has to go and never said that a passing reader could push it along.

The rules of the game are a spec whose tests run before publication, and one of its stated unknowns had been made false by our own work.

Correcting it was not optional: the same law that forbids an unsourced number forbids a claim contradicted by the thing we shipped.

Reported verification

• [passed] Command: node scripts/onboarding-from-spec.mjs. Result: the spec compiles and publishes; 10 test blocks, 54 asserts, all hold, 7 join steps. Evidence: The generator refuses to publish unless every test block in the spec evaluates true.
• [passed] Command: node --experimental-strip-types qa/queen-contrast-contract.mjs. Result: 24 pairs measured over a lit and a dark field, worst 5.39 to 1, 28 stylesheets walked. Evidence: The new roadmap invitation panel is grounded on the veil and measured with the rest.
• [passed] Command: node --experimental-strip-types qa/queen-language-contract.mjs. Result: Queen language contract PASS with 375 English keys and 375 Russian keys. Evidence: Every new string on the roadmap is written in both languages and the counts stay balanced.
• [passed] Command: npm run typecheck:ratchet. Result: 179 errors across 26 files against a baseline of 179; no file gained type errors. Evidence: Ratchet output on this branch.

Limits and open questions

• A face appears only where the operator wrote an at-login in TRIOS_KEY_OWNERS; until a person can submit their own key there is no self-service way onto the board
• The roadmap's open count comes from the first stage that carries a progress query, so it understates the work available across the other seven stages

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1132
• Reported head commit f22bf5d35b58
• Merge commit a9422f7b619a

Topic tags

#queen #leaderboard #onboarding

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