Implement milestone 2 around a portable X11 release bundle instead of\nkeeping distro packages as the only end-user path.\n\nAdd make/package scripts plus a portable installer helper that builds the\ntarball, creates a user-scoped venv install, manages the user service, handles\nupgrade rollback, and supports uninstall with optional purge.\n\nFlip the end-user docs to the portable bundle, add a dedicated install guide\nand validation matrix, and leave the roadmap milestone open only for the\nremaining manual distro validation evidence.\n\nValidation: python3 -m py_compile src/*.py packaging/portable/portable_installer.py tests/test_portable_bundle.py; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_portable_bundle; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_aman_cli tests.test_diagnostics tests.test_portable_bundle; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py'
Keep the first user-readiness assessment in the repo so the GA work has a\nconcrete evaluator baseline to refer back to.\n\nAdd the existing timestamped report and document the directory convention in\nuser-readiness/README.md so future reviews can be added without guessing how\nfiles are named or what they represent.
Avoid treating setuptools metadata as working tree noise when packaging and\nrunning release checks.\n\nIgnore *.egg-info/ globally so generated metadata stays out of follow-on\ncommits while leaving the actual milestone work staged separately.
Clarify the current release channels versus the X11 GA target so the project has an explicit support promise before milestone 2 delivery work begins.
Update the README, persona and distribution docs, and release checklist with a support matrix, the systemd --user daily-use path, the manual aman run support path, and the canonical recovery sequence. Mark milestone 1 complete in the roadmap once that contract is documented.
Align run, doctor, and self-check help text with the same service and diagnostics language without changing command behavior.
Validated with PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m aman --help, PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m aman doctor --help, and PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m aman self-check --help. Excludes generated src/aman.egg-info and prior user-readiness notes.
Capture the current GA gaps and define a portable X11 support contract so the release bar is explicit for mainstream distros.
Document five ordered milestones covering support policy, portable install/update/uninstall, runtime reliability and diagnostics, first-run UX/docs, and GA validation/release evidence.
Left generated artifacts (src/aman.egg-info) and prior readiness notes uncommitted.
Keep the daemon path on the full ASR result so word timings and detected language survive into the editor pipeline instead of falling back to a plain transcript string.
Add PipelineEngine.run_asr_result(), have aman call it when live ASR data is available, and cover the word-aware alignment behavior in the daemon tests.
Collapse the llama cleanup flow to a single JSON-shaped completion while leaving the legacy pass1/pass2 parameters in place as compatibility no-ops.
Validated with PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_aiprocess tests.test_aman.
