promote: closure-router fix, CODEOWNERS, and actionlint to main

[LukasWodka]

Promotes the three fixes merged to develop today onto main.

This is the step that makes them real. All 96 caller workflows across 14 repos pin
tracebloc/.github/.github/workflows/*.yml@main, so until this lands the closure-router fix is not
running, CODEOWNERS is not enforced, and actionlint is not linting anything.

PR	What it does
#67	A manual issue close no longer invents Status=Prod. The *) default was inverted, so every hand-closed issue was being marked shipped — and because fr-gate compares by rank, Prod (10) satisfies every promotion gate.
#69	CODEOWNERS. require_code_owner_reviews: true has been set on main with no file behind it, so it resolved to nothing on the repo that gates every other repo.
#66	actionlint on this repo's own workflows, plus the 29 pre-existing findings cleared. This repo has never had a required status check; once merged, make actionlint required on main.

develop is 4 commits ahead of main and 0 behind — a clean fast-forward's worth of history, no
conflicts.

After merging

1. Make actionlint a required check on main. It is the first one this repo will ever have.
2. Verify the closure router: hand-close an issue and confirm its Status is left alone rather than
   set to Prod.

Part of RFC-BACKEND-0008 (tracebloc/backend#1262) D11/D18/D22, Phase 0.

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Note

High Risk
Changes land on the org enforcement root at @main and alter kanban Status semantics that directly affect required FR promotion gates; misconfiguration could block merges or leave incorrect board state until reconcile runs.

Overview
Promotes org-wide tracebloc/.github hardening to main, where every other repo pins reusable workflows.

Governance: New CODEOWNERS makes require_code_owner_reviews on main real for workflows and scripts. New actionlint workflow runs on every PR (no paths filter), installs a version- and digest-pinned binary, requires shellcheck, and fails on any workflow/shell finding.

Security / process fix:kanban-closure-router no longer sets Status=Prod when an issue is closed as completed with no closing PR; it leaves kanban Status unchanged so manual closes cannot satisfy fr-gate. Routing logic is refactored to a single STATUS output; issue lookup uses ISSUE_NUMBER in the step env.

Correctness / lint cleanup:advance-deploy-env passes git log ranges as a bash array so the zero-before first-push path gets separate --max-count and SHA arguments. Several workflows add targeted # shellcheck disable=SC2016 on embedded GraphQL, plus small shell fixes (grouped GITHUB_OUTPUT, : > truncation in wip-limit-check, extra read field in kanban-reconcile apply step).

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[LukasWodka]

👋 Heads-up — Code review queue is at 41 / 30

Above the WIP limit. The team convention is to review existing PRs before opening new work.

Open PRs currently in Code review (oldest first):

• .github#64 — fix(closure-router): add GH_TOKEN to closing-PR lookup so issues mirror their closing PR's Status · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned
• .github#65 — feat(quality): shared code-quality reusable workflow + house-rules checker · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned
• .github#68 — feat(fr-gate): make the FR gate self-clearing and self-explanatory · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned
• averaging-service#207 — Promote develop → staging · author: @shujaatTracebloc · no reviewer assigned
• backend#1201 — docs(rfc): Data spaces & federated dataset composition (draft) · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned
• backend#1217 — docs(rfc): Dataset integrity & score reproducibility (draft) · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned
• backend#1228 — Promote develop → staging · author: @shujaatTracebloc · reviewer: @saadqbal
• backend#1244 — fix(experiments): surface save-time failures as 5xx + guard new NOT NULL columns · author: @LukasWodka · reviewer: @saqlainsyed007
• backend#1251 — docs(bugbot): add .cursor/BUGBOT.md project context (#930) · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned
• backend#1254 — docs(pr-template): owner-qualify cross-repo closing keywords · author: @LukasWodka · no reviewer assigned

Pull from review before opening new work. (This is a nudge from the kanban WIP check, not a block.)

[LukasWodka]

The gate is right. The ladder is broken.

gate / gate failed with:

Items not yet at 'Ready for prod' (or later): #66(Ready for staging) #67(Ready for staging) #69(Ready for staging)

That is correct behaviour, and there is no legal way to satisfy it in this repo:

1. The three items sit at Ready for staging — rank 7. Merging into main requires rank 9.
2. Rank 7 → 8 happens on a push to staging. tracebloc/.githubhas no staging branch.
3. /fr-pass cannot help: fr-pass-comment.yml handles only FR on dev and FR on staging. An item
   at Ready for staging falls to the *) arm and is told "wrong column".

So the item is stuck at rank 7 against a required rank 9, permanently. This is
RFC-BACKEND-0008 D28 — the promotion ladder is unsatisfiable in 11 of 17 repos, so the process
forces the bypass it exists to prevent — reproducing live, on the PR that carries the fixes.

skip-fr-gate did not exist in this repo either, so until a moment ago the only remaining exit was
dragging three cards by hand, which is the silent bypass (D27-L3) and leaves no trace. The label has
now been created here and in every other repo that was missing it, so the override is at least
visible.

Why I am using the override rather than dragging cards

Both get the same merge. The difference is that this one is on the PR, in the timeline, with a
reason attached — and the review's finding was precisely that overrides were happening invisibly.

What this PR unblocks

Nothing here is live yet: all 96 caller workflows pin @main, and main is still on 54b1817a
(18 June). Until this merges, the closure router is still marking every hand-closed issue as
Prod, CODEOWNERS is still vacuous, and actionlint is not running.

The real fix

backend#1274 (D8/D28) gives every repo a staging branch so this state stops existing. Until that
lands, every promotion in the 12 repos without one will hit this same wall.