Thanks a lot @tgerbet for the feedback, this is really valuable!
The idea is – at least for the next implementation phase – for “published” to mean that there’s a GitHub issue published to which all related issues and PRs can refer. Once that issue is closed, the tracker issue gets closed as well. We wanted to populate the issue description with all the data we have and also ping maintainers as set in the draft.
All the other items you mentioned are also on our radar, and it’s great you mentioned them explicitly since that will inform prioritisation.