branch.sh, finish.sh, release.sh, runner-image.sh and release-notes.sh
carried multi-paragraph 'how we got here / rejected' essays in comments. They
now live in the matching development/ category file, and each script keeps a
one-line pointer so the rationale is single-homed and cannot drift.
Follows the Perl/CPAN order: name + one-line description, Synopsis, Description,
Examples, API reference, License. Tooling, CI and decision content moved to
development/; the README keeps only user-facing material and a pointer to
CONTRIBUTING.md and AGENTS.md. No version line and no package.json link.
Adds Setup, Development commands, Code style and formatting (with the VSCode
extension hint) and Submitting changes. The decision prose moves to
development/; this file keeps the actionable rules (feedback-tier table, script
prefix list, standards) and links to the category files for the why.
Category files under development/ replace the decision prose that was
scattered through README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md. Each decision is a block with
Decision (YYYY-MM) / Why / Rejected / Known issue; the new library.md records
the public API contract and its limitations. AGENTS.md and backlog.tasks now
point at the new home.
The act-ci image is rebuilt only when Node is bumped, which changes the
tag, so the runner's default no-force-pull behavior already picks up every
normal update. Forcing a pull would re-pull on every job and a missed
runner-side image change is acceptable, so document that decision as a
known issue with a manual docker rmi workaround instead of tracking a
force-pull task.
Point 1 dropped the GITEA_TOKEN gate (the run's automatic github.token is
always present), and point 2 added the all-or-nothing check; keep the checked
task from claiming behavior the workflow no longer has.
Drop the GITEA_TOKEN gate and pass no explicit token: gitea-release-action
defaults to the run's automatic github.token, so the release page needs only
contents: write. Keep the npm publish gated on NPM_TOKEN, but add a final
always() step that fails the job unless both the release page and npm publish
reported success, so a skipped npm half is an explicit red job instead of a
silently green one.
Record the two optional secrets and why the job lifts them into env: the
secrets context is unavailable in a step if, so env is the only place the gate
can read them.
The publish job aborted at the top-of-job NPM_TOKEN assert, so every tag run
since 0.1.1 failed before checkout and nothing was ever published. Lift both
optional secrets into job-level env (the secrets context is not allowed in a
step if) and gate each publish step: the Gitea release on GITEA_TOKEN, npm
publish on NPM_TOKEN. An absent secret now skips only its step, so a tag without
the maintainer's secrets stays green after the packaging checks.
Also restores the runner force-pull task that the new entry had replaced; it is
still open (CONTRIBUTING § CI runner image documents the stale-image failure).
Latest releases of the two oxc tools; both minor bumps within 0.x/1.x
semver ranges. check-outdated now reports zero outdated dependencies
and npm run verify passes with no rule or format fallout.
All steps confirmed green in CI ('Found in cache @ /opt/hostedtoolcache/node/
26.8.2/x64', no download). The runner-side force-pull item moves to its own
task, since a changed image under an unchanged tag is still silently ignored.
The diagnostics did their job (missing <version>/<arch>.complete marker, now
written by the image). Replace the noise with a fail-fast assert that names
the same invariant, mirroring the publish job's NPM_TOKEN check: a stale tag
on the runner would otherwise silently reintroduce the per-job download, with
nothing in the repo to catch it.
setup-node still downloaded although the image carried a perfect
/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/26.8.2/x64/ tree. actions/tool-cache accepts a
cached tool only when the sibling marker <version>/<arch>.complete exists
(tc.find() tests it explicitly); a bare directory is ignored, so the probe
fell through to the download. The marker is what tc.cacheDir() writes after
installing a tool, so the baked entry must create it too.
Job-container diagnostics also confirmed the path was never in question:
RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE=/opt/hostedtoolcache, no mount over it, node -v from the
baked path prints v26.8.2.
CONTRIBUTING records both invariants — the marker, and the fact that a
Dockerfile change keeps the same tag, which forcePull=false can hide.
The custom image provably carries /opt/hostedtoolcache/node/26.8.2/x64/bin/node
(ls inside the image confirms the layout, modes and the 150 MB binary), yet
setup-node still downloads. So the miss is runtime-only: either the runner is
not running that image or something shadows the path inside the job container.
This step prints mounts, the tool-cache listing, a direct node -v from the
baked path and the RUNNER_* env, then setup-node runs unchanged.
Temporary: remove once the cause is known.
COPY --from= resolves its value as a stage name at parse time, before build
args exist, so COPY --from=node:${NODE_VERSION} collapsed to the invalid
'node:' and docker failed with 'failed to parse stage name'. ARGs in global
scope are expanded in FROM, so route through a named nodebase stage; the
per-stage ARG redeclaration keeps the tool-cache paths expanding.
build:runner-image broke the script prefix convention: build is a bare
single-tool command, and no tier fits a docker-daemon + registry-cred action,
so the script leaves package.json and is invoked directly. CONTRIBUTING gains
a 'CI runner image' section recording where the image pushes
(gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/act-ci:<version>), the .node-version coupling, and the
three-step Node-bump ritual.
Record chore/fix-ci's two done steps and the remaining ops step (build/push
the image; first CI run is the acceptance test). Glyph/tag coupling honoured:
every ✔ line carries @done, open parent stays ☐.
setup-node never consults `node` on PATH; its only fast path is a probe of
/opt/hostedtoolcache, which the ephemeral act_runner job containers always
miss, so every job paid a ~50 MB Node download. docker/Dockerfile extends the
runner's default catthehacker/act image with the Node distribution overlaid at
the exact tool-cache layout, so setup-node finds 26.8.2 and skips the fetch
while node-version-file, cache: npm and registry-url keep working unchanged.
Image layers dedupe against the base the host already pulled and prune via
normal docker hygiene — the cleanup story a host bind of /opt/hostedtoolcache
lacks. To make the bake deterministic, .node-version is pinned to the exact
26.8.2 the image carries; scripts/runner-image.sh guards that coupling and
builds/pushes the tag the three node jobs now reference via container.image.
Ops follow-up (outside the repo): build once with
`npm run build:runner-image -- --push` on a machine with registry creds. If
the package is private, the runner needs container registry credentials in
its config.
The publish job ran npm ci against a cold cache on every release while
build/maintain already share a warm node-cache key off the same lockfile.
Tag runs can read caches saved on main, so wiring cache: npm here is free.
The release commit message is a machine-read convention (release-gate
in ci.yml skips the redundant main CI run on it), so the emoji carries
weight: change the mint in scripts/release.sh, the recognized pattern,
and both docs in one atomic commit. No tags or release commits exist
yet, so nothing historical parses differently. 🚀 matches the
gitmoji semantic (deploy/publish) better than 🔖 here.
A release pushes main and then a tag pointing at the same commit, so
the branch run re-verifies the identical SHA the tag run already
verifies (and publishes). Add a cheap release-gate job that recognizes
the '🔖 Release x.y.z' commit message on main and skips the
full build/maintain jobs; tag, PR, and ordinary main pushes are
unaffected, and the gate fails open (runs CI) if it errors.
pubv's bump heuristic reads [Unreleased], so the maintainer must write the
notes before pubv runs, not after. pubv refuses a dirty tree (its prompt
defaults to No), so the edit is committed as a staging commit and folded back
into pubv's single release commit.
pubv resolves the default branch from the local refs/remotes/origin/HEAD,
which git fetch never updates, so a clone or default-branch change left it
stale and pubv warned that main was not the default. Refresh it from the
remote before pubv runs, and assert releases are cut from main explicitly.
The merge half of the branching model was still prose, so it drifted per
session. create:finish mirrors create:branch: it asserts the merge-side
preconditions, fast-forwards a stale main (divergence is refused), merges
--no-ff, runs npm run verify, and deletes the branch only when green. The
push stays with create:release so the merge is reviewable first.
Add scripts/precompress.ts, a dependency-free Node 26 tool that writes
.br/.gz/.zst sidecars next to every text asset and keeps the originals, so
static-web-server can serve the variant matching Accept-Encoding and fall
back to the original. The coverage publish step runs it on the copied report.
Wire scripts/*.ts into the toolchain: type-check (tsconfig include), lint and
fix (oxlint paths), knip entry (CI invokes the file rather than importing it),
and a narrow .oxlintrc override allowing node:* imports in Node CLI scripts.
The build job bind-mounts the shared pages tree (the runner whitelists it
via container.valid_volumes) and, on tag pushes, wipes
/data/gitea-pages/<owner>/<repo>/<tag>/coverage before copying the c8 report
into it. Only this tag's coverage/ is touched; older tags and sibling
docs/landing trees are left for manual pruning.
Add a `tags: ["*"]` push trigger: a `branches` filter alone matches no tag
ref, so the tag-gated publish job (and this coverage step) could never run.
Track per-branch coverage as a backlog task.
The publish job now opens a Gitea release for the tag, using the
matching Keep-a-Changelog section as the body via scripts/release-notes.sh.
It runs before npm publish so a broken page fails CI without burning an
npm version; npm publish stays the last step.
Uses the first-party gitea-release-action (the older actions/release-action
is deprecated and requires asset files) and contents: write for the run's
automatic token.
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