Release Meeting Assistant v0.1.0-alpha.1

docs/releases/v0.1.0-alpha.1.md

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+# Meeting Assistant — First functional alpha
+
+Version: `0.1.0a1`
+Tag: `v0.1.0-alpha.1`
+
+This is the first functional end-to-end alpha of the local Meeting Assistant.
+It provides local meeting configuration and audio workflow, FFmpeg preparation
+and normalization, Whisper transcription, optional diarization, explicit
+speaker mapping, anonymous-speaker protocol generation, mapped-speaker
+regeneration, German and English meeting-language handling, glossary handling
+with YAML interchange, glossary provenance without transcript mutation,
+configurable protocol performance profiles, processing timings, generation
+history and provenance, and atomic publication of complete successful protocol
+generations. The GTM-Hub qualitative regression case is included.
+
+The validated candidate revisions for this release were:
+
+- Assistant: `b50b87c32b3941310c719f459fd45faa87658b68`
+- Meeting Lab: `d2e3636b949280402728308022c99bdee6ea1066`
+
+The immutable release revisions are the commits targeted by the paired
+`v0.1.0-alpha.1` tags in the two repositories.
+
+## Accepted alpha limitations
+
+- A local runtime, model, and container setup is required.
+- Generated protocols require human review, especially responsibility and
+  action attribution; speaker identity requires explicit confirmation.
+- Diarization can be imperfect. The final native smoke environment did not
+  contain `pyannote.audio==4.0.7` and PyTorch, so real diarization and mapped
+  speaker regeneration were not rerun there; automated tests cover these paths.
+- Real German and English `qwen3.8:27b` protocol generation was validated.
+- Context limits can cause attribution fallback or oversized-input rejection.
+- Historical ignored Lab fixtures are required by some old experiment tests and
+  are not automatically present in a completely fresh Lab worktree.
+- Generation publication assumes a local POSIX filesystem; power-loss
+  durability is not guaranteed.
+- Visual redesign is post-alpha, and concise distribution-protocol rendering
+  remains future work.

pyproject.toml

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 [project]
 name = "meeting-assistant"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.0a1"
 description = "Local-first meeting transcription and knowledge capture assistant"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"