Roadmap: v0.2.0, thesis reproducibility, and v0.3.0

[vshulcz]

This issue tracks the public roadmap after v0.1.0 and links the active milestones.

Milestones:

• v0.2.0: benchmark automation, public demos, generated plots, contributor-friendly docs
• thesis-reproducibility: evidence packaging, DOI checklist, release verification, archive smoke tests
• v0.3.0: broader controller comparisons, canary experiments, multi-node resource profiles

Contributor entry points:

• Project board: MPC Autoscaler Roadmap
• Good first issues: good first issue Good for newcomers
• Help wanted: help wanted Extra attention is needed
• Contributor sprint: Contributor sprint: small PR queue #94
• Q&A setup help: Ask setup and reproducibility questions here #77
• Starter discussion: Contributing ideas and starter tasks #26

Current sprint issues:

• Add offline simulation output file reference #78
• Add mpc-control-loop dry-run example #79
• Add ServiceMonitor enablement note #80
• Add release image digest verification example #81
• Add evidence alias glossary #82
• Add source links to results snapshot #83
• Add Results link to docs site navigation #84
• Add dashboard panel-to-metric mapping table #85
• Add loadgen output directory reference #86
• Add Python dependency troubleshooting note #87
• Add Helm resource override examples #88
• Add toy-load HTTP status code reference #89
• Add release asset inventory to README #90
• Add Q&A accepted-answer reminder to PR template #91
• Add offline trace examples link card to docs site #92
• Add PR title examples to contributing guide #93

Other useful starter issues:

• Extend Grafana dashboard with controller decision panels #13
• Add kind quickstart for local live demo #14
• Add dashboard import instructions to docs site #31
• Add release download examples to Pages gallery #32
• Add CLI help smoke tests for analysis commands #36
• Add PromQL glossary for toy-load metrics #45
• Add Docker run and smoke-test examples #46
• Add dashboard metric glossary to experiment gallery #48
• Add markdown examples for mpc-validate-trace output #49
• Add direct unit tests for trace validator helper #50
• Add release artifact list to docs site #53
• Add Kubernetes cleanup commands to live experiment docs #55
• Add analysis CLI command index #65
• Add toy-load Helm port-forward smoke test #66
• Add control-loop glossary to architecture docs #67
• Add GHCR image tag reference table #68
• Add loadgen scenario reference table #69
• Add Grafana dashboard source links to docs site #70
• Add metric label reference to toy-load README #71
• Add release verification troubleshooting notes #72
• Add README Make target quick reference #74
• Add Helm namespace override examples #75
• Add citation and license card to docs site #76