Refinement decided 2026-09-01: each side gets its native format — the
wrapper keeps a bash-sourceable transport env file, Werkator takes a
YAML fragment in its own config schema via 'init --apply FILE',
deep-merged idempotently. The env-to-config mapping table disappears
entirely: the fragment IS configuration in the one schema, validated by
the existing binding, documented by the existing reference. The env
file names the fragment (WERKATOR_INIT_CONFIG), keeping one entry point
per instance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decided 2026-09-01: Werkator becomes the executing app, the remote
script a thin wrapper (build, transport, remote execution, service
switching). Parameters travel as env files instead of many options —
'remote --env .env.mih34 werkator ...' selects the target, and
'werkator --env ... init' reads the same file and writes real values
into the files it owns, idempotently; the wrapper's YAML heredocs and
sed patches (the duplicate-block class) die. control-token becomes a
werkator subcommand, check-prerequisites delegates to werkdock doctor.
Explicitly not the removed legacy env-to-YAML conversion: the env file
is setup-time input to init, never runtime configuration.
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tools/remote reworked to role-named commands (the builder-vs-built
tangle noted 2026-09-01): instance-install/instance-update/
instance-start manage the installed Werkator + werkdock, repo-init the
watched repository. The self-build is retired — no repo clone for
building, no GitHub-key step; the instance installs from locally built
artifacts (ADR 0006), the watched repo clones anonymously via https.
instance-update refuses to swap the runtime under a running build
(FORCE=1 overrides) and keeps the previous runtime as the rollback
asset. repo-init is idempotent: checksum-skipped rootfs upload, and the
machine-config guard is fixed — its indentation mismatch (grep for two
spaces, block written with four) appended the bwrap block on every run,
the source of the nine duplicates found on mih34. The retired
install/build/start commands fail loudly naming their successors.
docs/deployment.md gains the Hostsharing Managed Webspace as the third
deployment variant, written from the live-verified setup: both new
commands ran against mih34 (full update cycle; fully skipping re-init).
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The runner no longer assembles raw bwrap argv: it checks image
existence via 'werkdock images', loads the rootfs archive once per
source as image werkator-buildenv-<hash> into werkdock's store (shared
across every repository of the OS user — resolving step 22's
buildenv-sharing question), and runs builds through 'werkdock run --rm'
with the git-metadata mask expressed as ordered -v/--tmpfs flags.
New pinned config key bwrap.werkdock (the executing binary, default via
PATH) — a branch must not substitute the executing binary; synced in
WerkatorConfig, BwrapOverrides, the pinned-key strip, the init
template, docs/configuration.md, and AGENTS.md.
werkdock's --clearenv means the server environment no longer leaks into
builds; the TMPDIR workaround is gone with the raw invocation.
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The image-name pattern allows dots, so a directory like broken.tmp —
an interrupted load's staging dir — counted as an image. List now skips
.tmp names and Load refuses them, closing the ambiguity the previous
commit's (accidentally pushed red) test exposed.
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Session C groundwork: Werkator's git-metadata mask needs a tmpfs
BETWEEN binds (ro-bind .git, tmpfs .git/werkator, bind workspace), so
-v and --tmpfs now collect into one ordered mount list and RunSpec
carries Mounts instead of Binds. --tmpfs DEST is the docker flag of the
same name. `werkdock images` lists loaded image names one per line, so
a consumer can check existence through the CLI. -v accepts the explicit
:rw docker default instead of refusing it.
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Records the tenet revision and its shape: instance registry and
instance keys in ~/.werkator.yml (one instance per OS user), optional
repo defaults in an explicit defaults: block merged below every repo's
own layers, repo config unchanged in each repository, registry-wins
precedence, basename repo names. Rejected: a federation dashboard over
single-repo instances (keeps N services), and the status quo.
Konzept/AGENTS architecture wording changes only when the
implementation lands; the decision list carries 0009 now.
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Repo defaults allowed in the home file, but only inside an explicit
defaults: block, merged below every repo's own layers (accepted cost:
secrets may live in two places). Registry wins over cwd when a home
config exists. Repo names default to the directory basename,
overridable per registry entry, duplicates abort loudly. The file name
stays .werkator.yml in all three locations — the location carries the
meaning.
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Host/instance configuration (domain, port, registry, global concurrency)
lives in a .werkator.yml in the home directory of the user running the
instance — one instance per OS user, matching the platform model; repo
configuration stays in each repository's .git/werkator/. Repo-level
instance keys get ignored with a warning once a home config exists.
The open questions now name the decisions still needed: repo defaults
in the home file, cwd-vs-registry precedence, repo naming, and whether
the third .werkator.yml location should carry a distinct name.
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The one-instance-per-repository tenet does not scale to a second
repository on a webspace (second service, port, tunnel, UI). Step 22
plans the revision in five sessions: ADR 0009 + instance registry and
key-ownership split, a RepoContext refactor with unchanged behavior,
watcher/executor multiplexing with per-repo error isolation, repo-scoped
routes and UI with single-repo back-compat, and the mih34 rollout with
Werkbaum as the second repository. Guiding idea: the repository stays
self-contained (state in its own .git/werkator), the instance is only
an aggregator — adding a repo is a registry entry, never a migration.
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openjdk-21-jdk-headless instead of the full JDK (drops the X11 and
fontconfig library stack; headless AWT still works for tests),
message catalogs except en/de removed, man pages, package docs, apt
lists and cache cleared after install.
Measured on the JDK+Go+Node image: 516 MB -> 351 MB compressed —
smaller than the original JDK-only archive (375 MB).
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tools/remote mixes commands that manage the builder (the installed
Werkator instance) with commands that act on the built (the watched
repository); on the self-building instance both roles coincide in one
product, which misleads. Session D's replacement must name the role in
every command and delegate built-side operations to the werkator CLI.
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Every artifactDir landed below reports/ — the legacy
archived_artefact_dir_path layout — which mislabeled non-report outputs
(reports/werkdock/dist/werkdock) AND hid them: the artifact page's
report index only scans reports/ for HTML pages, so a built binary was
stored but never shown.
Now build/reports keeps archiving as reports/ (the browsable anchor and
every existing link), every other directory archives at its
workspace-relative path, and the artifact page gains a plain-files list
for everything outside reports/ (log files stay in their own section;
capped at 200 entries). Existing stored artifacts keep their old layout
and remain served; only new builds use the new one.
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bwrap inherits the server's environment; on hosts with pam_tmpdir that
includes TMPDIR=/tmp/user/<uid>, which does not exist on the sandbox's
fresh tmpfs /tmp. Every tool honoring TMPDIR then fails — seen live on
mih34 as go's 'creating work dir: stat /tmp/user/120957: no such file
or directory'. The JVM ignores TMPDIR, so Gradle builds never noticed.
Explicit environment and bwrap.env entries can still override.
(Werkdock's own engine is immune by design: it runs --clearenv.)
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--exclude=sys matched every path component named sys anywhere in the
tree — GNU tar applies slash-less patterns to all components — and so
silently dropped usr/share/go-1.24/src/internal/runtime/sys from the
archive, breaking every go build in the sandbox with 'package
internal/runtime/sys is not in std'. The excludes are now anchored
(./proc, ./sys, ./dev), so only the top-level mountpoints stay out.
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Run-time composition instead of baked-in toolchain combinations: a slim
base image plus per-toolchain prefix binds (--with jdk-21 --with go-1.24),
possible because official toolchain tarballs live under their own
prefixes — plain ro-binds, no overlayfs, no root, today's bwrap.
Comes due when a second toolchain combination is needed; until then the
one fat image stays the deliberate choice.
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Flat images without layers (~2 GiB unpacked for a fat JDK+Go+Node
buildenv), near-free instances (read-only rootfs bind + tmpfs), the
one-fat-image recommendation, the orphaned-environment trap on archive
path changes, and the future overlay/hardlink-dedup options.
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A second named build beside the default: gofmt gate, go vet, go test,
and the static binary as the artifact (werkdock/dist). Verified locally
end to end and via config:print.
Expected red on the webspace instance until the trixie rootfs learns
the go toolchain — that image extension (Go + Node, roadmap step 2 of
plan 21) is the follow-up.
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The minimal build-capable CLI decided in RFC 0002's outcome: stdlib-only
Go module, one static binary.
- engine: RunSpec behind the Engine interface (RFC 0001); the Bwrap
engine ports Werkator's hardened invocation — uid-0 mapping, read-only
rootfs at /, proc/dev/tmp/root before the user binds so binds below
them land inside, mountpoint pre-creation in the rootfs including file
mountpoints, and a guard against binds escaping the rootfs. --clearenv
gives docker-style clean environments (HOME/PATH set explicitly).
- store: images under $WERKDOCK_HOME (default ~/.werkdock), load
unpacks via the tar CLI into a tmp dir and renames atomically.
- cli: docker-shaped run flags (-v/-e/-w/--rm); refused docker flags
(-p, --network, --memory, --cpus, --user, -d) fail loudly with the
reason; exit codes follow docker (125 CLI errors, child code through).
- doctor: port of werkator-build-prerequisites.sh — userns probe with
the three signals, tar/zstd, free space and group-quota headroom via
testable df/quota parsers, same PASS/FAIL output.
- tests: argv golden test, mountpoint and escape tests, flag refusals,
store round trip, doctor parsers — plus real-sandbox integration
tests that skip where bwrap or userns are unavailable.
Also records in step 21: RFC 0002 levels 2/3 deferred; next goal is
sandbox builds of Werkator, Werkbaum, and Werkdock itself.
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Level 1: docker-compatible CLI (verbs, flags, loud refusal of isolation
flags the filesystem-only contract cannot honor) — built in session B.
Level 2: OCI image pull, flattened to a rootfs — deferred, stdlib-doable.
Level 3: a daemon speaking the Docker Engine API subset Testcontainers
actually uses (Testcontainers never calls the CLI) — deferred, but the
CLI is built as a thin frontend over the same internal service from the
start. Records the port-mapping crux of host networking and the
unprivileged-netns escape hatch as a future RFC.
Step 21 session B and the werkdock README follow the docker-shaped
semantics: run takes an image, instances correspond to containers.
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The full five-way evaluation (bash, Python 3, Kotlin Native, Rust, Go)
with the numeric scoring, the Kotlin Native deep-dive, and the
own-namespaces-instead-of-bwrap analysis, ending in a concrete proposal:
Go, stdlib-only, one static binary, sandbox engine behind an interface
so bwrap can later be swapped for native namespaces.
Status proposed — the decision outcome is recorded once made.
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- PR-docs get their real numbers: bwrap-build-runtime -> PR#4,
build-current-head-from-the-branches-view -> PR#3 (files and scenario IDs)
- tools/remote: header note marking install's clone step and build as the
self-build prototype, superseded by session D of step 21 (usage range grown)
- ADR 0008: bubblewrap user-namespace sandbox as the third build runtime;
step 17 and the plan README now point at 0008 (0007 was taken by build
definitions before the step landed)
- AGENTS.md: decisions list catches up with ADR 0007 and ADR 0008
- architecture skill: BwrapBuildRunner paragraph (rootfs unpack, uid mapping,
mount ordering, pinned keys) and the dispatcher's three-way routing
- plan README: step 21 entry now describes the werkdock/ subdirectory path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records where the bwrap work (PR #4) drifted from the intent of ADR 0006 —
the webspace self-build instead of local-build-plus-install — and breaks the
correction into four sessions: close step 17's open ends, bootstrap Werkdock,
let Werkator consume it, replace the self-build with the bundle install path.
The extracted sandbox tool is named Werkdock (decided after three naming
rounds, rationale and dropped candidates in the step file). It grows in the
werkdock/ subdirectory, seeded here with its README, and moves to its own
repository once it stands on its own.
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* Add the bubblewrap build runtime (step 17, ADR 0007)
BwrapBuildRunner: third runtime behind BuildRunner for hosts without root
and without Docker (e.g. Hostsharing managed webspaces). Shells out to the
bwrap CLI, unpacks a prepared rootfs on demand into
.git/werkator/buildenv/<envKey>/rootfs, reuses the Docker runner's git
metadata mounts, and returns the attached bwrap process for streaming and
cancellation.
Config: bwrap.enabled/rootfs/env on BranchConfig and BwrapOverrides on
BuildDefinition; enabled/rootfs are pinned like the docker sandbox policy.
Docker and bwrap are mutually exclusive per build, rejected in
buildSettings instead of picked silently. DispatchingBuildRunner routes
bwrap; InitCommand template, docs/configuration.md and AGENTS.md in sync.
* bwrap rollout tooling: remote script, prerequisites disk/quota check, absolute workspace binds
- tools/remote: central remote control script with check-prerequisites, install and build commands
- tools/werkator-build-prerequisites.sh: compact PASS/FAIL output, target-dir parameter, free-space and
group-quota headroom checks against the ~5 GiB build footprint, home-filesystem reference
- BwrapBuildRunner: bind workspace and home at absolute paths resolved against repoDir — a relative
path made bwrap create mountpoints inside the read-only rootfs (seen on the webspace); regression test
- TestcontainersSmokeTest: gated with enabledIf docker available (skip, never fail, without a daemon)
- docs: configuration reference, step-17 plan notes, PR-doc
* bwrap: bind the repo read-write before the workspace so mountpoints are creatable
bwrap creates mountpoints for bind destinations inside the sandbox; with only a
read-only rootfs bound at /, creating them for the workspace under .git/werkator/
worktrees failed with 'Read-only file system' (seen on the webspace). Binding the
repo dir read-write first provides the base; the git metadata mounts then layer
the usual isolation on top (read-only .git, tmpfs mask over .git/werkator,
read-write worktree admin dir).
* bwrap: pre-create bind mountpoints inside the unpacked rootfs
bwrap mkdirs mountpoints for bind destinations against the sandbox view; with the
rootfs ro-bound at / every destination missing from the rootfs (the repo dir under
/home/storage/... on the webspace) fails with 'Read-only file system'. The rootfs
directory is a plain host dir, so create the mountpoints there before launching
bwrap; it then finds them and has nothing left to create.
* bwrap: skip existing rootfs files when pre-creating bind mountpoints
/etc/resolv.conf is a file the rootfs already ships; createDirectories threw on it.
Only missing directories are created now.
* bwrap: pre-create proc/dev/tmpfs mountpoints in the rootfs too
The rootfs archive ships no /proc or /dev (excluded when packed), so bwrap failed
mkdir'ing their mountpoints against the read-only root.
* bwrap: bind the workspace after the git metadata mounts
The tmpfs mask over .git/werkator shadowed the earlier workspace bind, because the
worktree lives under .git/werkator/worktrees — chdir then failed with ENOENT. The
workspace bind now comes last and shadows the mask at exactly its own path.
* systemd resource limits and webspace start command (step 17, web access)
- server.systemd.memoryMax/tasksMax (empty = directive omitted): on platforms where
the service runs in a shared memory slice (Hostsharing Managed Webspaces) a
runaway Gradle build must not starve the whole package; init --systemd reads the
effective config and bakes the values into the generated unit
- tools/remote werkator start: writes server settings (assigned port, loopback
bind, publicBaseUrl, nginx off) plus the Apache reverse-proxy .htaccess into
~/doms/<domain>/subs/www, runs init --systemd and enables the user unit
- docs/configuration.md documents the new keys
* tools/remote: env-based configuration and background port-forward
All connection and deployment values come from .env in the repository root
(WERKATOR_REMOTE, WERKATOR_PATH, WERKATOR_PORT, WERKATOR_DOMAIN,
WERKATOR_LOCAL_PORT, optional WERKATOR_BRANCH/MEMORY_MAX/TASKS_MAX/ROOTFS);
missing values fail with a pointing error instead of positional parameters.
- port-forward is now 'tools/remote port-forward start|stop' with a detached
ssh tunnel, pid file under /tmp, and idempotent start
- start restarts the systemd unit after updating the machine config
- control-token generates the token in place when the server has not yet
- the rootfs archive default moves to build/ (already gitignored)
* renaming from gitTally to Werkator
* Rename GitTally to Werkator
`gitTally` is the name of another product in the git space, so the
rename is a precaution; nothing about what the build system does changes.
The name follows one rule: `Werkator` where it is prose, capitalized
where it is a Kotlin type and its file, lowercase everywhere a machine
reads it — the command, packages, paths, configuration keys and values,
the Gitea check context. Environment variables keep their convention and
are uppercase throughout.
Every configuration file is still found under its pre-rename name
(`ConfigFiles`): `.gittally.yml` at the repository root, in a build
worktree and as committed on a branch, `.git/gittally/.gittally.yml` for
the machine layer. The current name wins where both exist, and the old
file is then ignored rather than merged — two files side by side are a
half-done rename, not a layering. Without the fallback an installation
that updated without renaming would not fail: a configuration that is
not found leaves every setting at its default, so it would come up
looking healthy while having forgotten its credentials and its builds.
`docs/werkator-migrationsplan.md` lists what the fallback does not
cover and has to be moved by hand — above all the state directory
`.git/werkator/`, which holds the build history, the control token and
the worktrees, and has no fallback of its own.
`docs/migration-from-legacy.md` is deleted with this: it mapped the
legacy script's environment variables, and every host it addressed has
long since moved to the YAML configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Move the pre-rename state directory at the first start
The configuration is found under either name, the state is not: build
history, control token, auto-build slots and worktrees live at one fixed
path. An installation that updates without moving `.git/gittally` would
not fail — it would come up with an empty history and a fresh control
token, quietly. So the first start moves it instead of the release notes
asking for it.
Only when the old directory exists and the new one does not. Where both
exist nothing is touched and a warning names the leftover: which of the
two is the live state is not something to guess. A failed move is an
error in the log, never an abort — a CI must not hang on it.
The worktrees are dropped rather than moved, since they point at their
old path in both directions; `GitWorktreeWorkspaces` prunes the stale
admin entry and recreates each on its branch's next build. A generated
systemd unit moves with the directory and leaves its symlink dangling,
which is warned about — the running service is unaffected, the next
start is not.
Runs from `CliRunner`, before any command resolves a path under the
directory, and so before the second context of `server` exists.
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* Document PR#1: the rename to Werkator
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* Drop the legacy env-to-YAML conversion from the setup tool
The old bash script configured itself through `GITTALLY_*` environment
variables. The blanket rename rewrote those literals, so the converter
was looking for `WERKATOR_*` — a spelling no host has ever written. Fed
a real legacy file it would have found nothing and written an almost
empty configuration, without an error, which is the same silent failure
this rename is otherwise careful to avoid.
The conversion has served its purpose with the vm2176 to vm4006
migration, so it goes instead of being repaired. What remains is the
setup of a new instance: the preconditions, the credential prompt, and
the machine configuration written mode 600 — now carrying the host's
public URL as well, since that is host-specific too. Everything the
repository builds comes from `init` and its templates.
It also stops emitting a legacy `branches:` section, which step 18 is
about to reject outright.
`docs/plan/00-legacy-analysis.md` and `13-nginx-tls.md` get the real
`GITTALLY_*` spelling back: they record what the old script read.
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* Describe this repository's build with a build definition
Its own `.werkator.yml` still used the deprecated `branches` section
with an `autoBuild` schedule that was switched off. That section is read
only while nothing defines a build at all, and step 18 rejects it by
name — so this repository would have blocked the precondition of that
step, which asks that no configuration still in play carries it.
Nothing about the build changes: `builds.default` with `trigger.onPush`
is a build of every new commit on every branch, which is what the branch
section said. `config:print --full` resolves the definition completely
and logs no deprecation warning any more.
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* Stop documenting the pre-rename fallback for users
Exactly one repository is configured with the old names, and it is
migrated by hand in the same move as this release. The fallback is
therefore a transition of days, not a feature anyone reading the release
notes or the configuration reference has to plan around.
Removed from `releases.html` and `docs/configuration.md`. The mechanism
itself is unchanged and stays described where it is worked on: in
`ConfigFiles`, in `StateDirMigration`, and in the migration plan.
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* Bring the PR-doc to its final state
The `statusContext` question is answered and marked as decided rather
than left standing: it is the one value a human reads as a label, and it
stays lowercase because Gitea matches it and the client reads it back,
which makes it a value.
Also records that the pre-rename fallback is deliberately absent from
the release notes and the configuration reference.
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* Release v1.0.0: Werkator
The release after 0.9.21 is 1.0.0, because a product that changes its
name is better off counting from one under it. The release note says as
much, so the jump is not read as a claim about maturity — plan steps 14,
17 and 18 are still open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Correct the PR-doc about the version
It claimed the PR carries no version bump, which the release commit made
untrue, and records why the number is 1.0.0 instead of 0.9.22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Point the legacy references at the history
`legacy/gitTally` was removed from the tree with the rename, but the
README still described it as a reference kept in the repository, and the
plan told an executing session to read parts of it — including step 14,
which is open.
The README section is gone; `docs/plan/README.md`, step 14 and the
legacy analysis now say where the script actually is
(`git show 7f55068^:legacy/gitTally`). Executed steps and ADR 0004 keep
their wording: they record what was true when they ran.
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* Retarget the links in the historic PR-docs
The package rename moved every file the older PR-docs link to, leaving
60 dead links. Only the link targets are rewritten, never the visible
text and never a statement: those documents record what was true when
they were written, GitTally in the prose included. A snapshot may be
outdated; it should still be navigable.
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* Add the v1.0.0 deployment procedure for vm4006
Measured, not estimated: the state directory is 878 MB, of which 878 MB
are the nine build worktrees. What cannot be recreated is 84 KB, so the
snapshot before an in-place switch is instant and the rollback is one
sequence of moves.
Records the three expected non-failures — a cold Gradle volume, one
image rebuild, containers left under the old label — and that
`gitea.statusContext` needs no attention because it comes from the
watched repository's committed configuration.
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* Rename the machine configuration along with its directory
Found by the deployment to vm4006: the move renames the directory and
leaves the file inside it alone, so the machine configuration ended up at
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` — a pair of names the lookup did not
expect, because it pairs directory and file name. The instance resolved
empty credentials, no public URL and none of the host's build
definitions, and said nothing about it. That is the exact failure this
change exists to prevent, produced by the change itself.
`StateDirMigration` now renames the configuration with the directory,
unless one under the current name is already there. `ConfigFiles` carries
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` as a third candidate as well, for a
directory somebody moved by hand, where the migration never runs and so
can rename nothing.
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* Let init see a configuration under its previous name
`init --systemd` runs `init`, and its "already exists" check knew only
the current name. On the one repository still carrying `.gittally.yml`
it therefore wrote a fresh template `.werkator.yml` beside it — and
since the current name wins, that repository would have built the
template's `./gradlew test` instead of what its own configuration says.
Found on vm4006, where the file was created in the watched working tree
and removed again by hand.
Both checks now ask `ConfigFiles`, so init decides existence by the same
rule the loader uses to read.
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* Record the v1.0.0 deployment to vm4006
Deployed from the branch as the final test of PR#1, and it did what a
final test is for: it found two silent-failure defects before the
service was started, both fixed and redeployed in the same window.
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* Drop the control token left under the old localStorage key
The key is named after the product, so the rename left every browser
with a token under `gittally.controlToken`, which nothing reads any more
and which "forget token" can no longer reach. It is a write-scope token
in a browser store, not a password, but a secret nobody owns is worth
one line to remove.
Removed on load. The token on the server is unchanged, so re-entering it
once per browser is all the rename costs.
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* Plan tracking the build duration over time (step 20)
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* renaming from gitTally to Werkator
* Rename GitTally to Werkator
`gitTally` is the name of another product in the git space, so the
rename is a precaution; nothing about what the build system does changes.
The name follows one rule: `Werkator` where it is prose, capitalized
where it is a Kotlin type and its file, lowercase everywhere a machine
reads it — the command, packages, paths, configuration keys and values,
the Gitea check context. Environment variables keep their convention and
are uppercase throughout.
Every configuration file is still found under its pre-rename name
(`ConfigFiles`): `.gittally.yml` at the repository root, in a build
worktree and as committed on a branch, `.git/gittally/.gittally.yml` for
the machine layer. The current name wins where both exist, and the old
file is then ignored rather than merged — two files side by side are a
half-done rename, not a layering. Without the fallback an installation
that updated without renaming would not fail: a configuration that is
not found leaves every setting at its default, so it would come up
looking healthy while having forgotten its credentials and its builds.
`docs/werkator-migrationsplan.md` lists what the fallback does not
cover and has to be moved by hand — above all the state directory
`.git/werkator/`, which holds the build history, the control token and
the worktrees, and has no fallback of its own.
`docs/migration-from-legacy.md` is deleted with this: it mapped the
legacy script's environment variables, and every host it addressed has
long since moved to the YAML configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Move the pre-rename state directory at the first start
The configuration is found under either name, the state is not: build
history, control token, auto-build slots and worktrees live at one fixed
path. An installation that updates without moving `.git/gittally` would
not fail — it would come up with an empty history and a fresh control
token, quietly. So the first start moves it instead of the release notes
asking for it.
Only when the old directory exists and the new one does not. Where both
exist nothing is touched and a warning names the leftover: which of the
two is the live state is not something to guess. A failed move is an
error in the log, never an abort — a CI must not hang on it.
The worktrees are dropped rather than moved, since they point at their
old path in both directions; `GitWorktreeWorkspaces` prunes the stale
admin entry and recreates each on its branch's next build. A generated
systemd unit moves with the directory and leaves its symlink dangling,
which is warned about — the running service is unaffected, the next
start is not.
Runs from `CliRunner`, before any command resolves a path under the
directory, and so before the second context of `server` exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Document PR#1: the rename to Werkator
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Drop the legacy env-to-YAML conversion from the setup tool
The old bash script configured itself through `GITTALLY_*` environment
variables. The blanket rename rewrote those literals, so the converter
was looking for `WERKATOR_*` — a spelling no host has ever written. Fed
a real legacy file it would have found nothing and written an almost
empty configuration, without an error, which is the same silent failure
this rename is otherwise careful to avoid.
The conversion has served its purpose with the vm2176 to vm4006
migration, so it goes instead of being repaired. What remains is the
setup of a new instance: the preconditions, the credential prompt, and
the machine configuration written mode 600 — now carrying the host's
public URL as well, since that is host-specific too. Everything the
repository builds comes from `init` and its templates.
It also stops emitting a legacy `branches:` section, which step 18 is
about to reject outright.
`docs/plan/00-legacy-analysis.md` and `13-nginx-tls.md` get the real
`GITTALLY_*` spelling back: they record what the old script read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Describe this repository's build with a build definition
Its own `.werkator.yml` still used the deprecated `branches` section
with an `autoBuild` schedule that was switched off. That section is read
only while nothing defines a build at all, and step 18 rejects it by
name — so this repository would have blocked the precondition of that
step, which asks that no configuration still in play carries it.
Nothing about the build changes: `builds.default` with `trigger.onPush`
is a build of every new commit on every branch, which is what the branch
section said. `config:print --full` resolves the definition completely
and logs no deprecation warning any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Stop documenting the pre-rename fallback for users
Exactly one repository is configured with the old names, and it is
migrated by hand in the same move as this release. The fallback is
therefore a transition of days, not a feature anyone reading the release
notes or the configuration reference has to plan around.
Removed from `releases.html` and `docs/configuration.md`. The mechanism
itself is unchanged and stays described where it is worked on: in
`ConfigFiles`, in `StateDirMigration`, and in the migration plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Bring the PR-doc to its final state
The `statusContext` question is answered and marked as decided rather
than left standing: it is the one value a human reads as a label, and it
stays lowercase because Gitea matches it and the client reads it back,
which makes it a value.
Also records that the pre-rename fallback is deliberately absent from
the release notes and the configuration reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Release v1.0.0: Werkator
The release after 0.9.21 is 1.0.0, because a product that changes its
name is better off counting from one under it. The release note says as
much, so the jump is not read as a claim about maturity — plan steps 14,
17 and 18 are still open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Correct the PR-doc about the version
It claimed the PR carries no version bump, which the release commit made
untrue, and records why the number is 1.0.0 instead of 0.9.22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Point the legacy references at the history
`legacy/gitTally` was removed from the tree with the rename, but the
README still described it as a reference kept in the repository, and the
plan told an executing session to read parts of it — including step 14,
which is open.
The README section is gone; `docs/plan/README.md`, step 14 and the
legacy analysis now say where the script actually is
(`git show 7f55068^:legacy/gitTally`). Executed steps and ADR 0004 keep
their wording: they record what was true when they ran.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Retarget the links in the historic PR-docs
The package rename moved every file the older PR-docs link to, leaving
60 dead links. Only the link targets are rewritten, never the visible
text and never a statement: those documents record what was true when
they were written, GitTally in the prose included. A snapshot may be
outdated; it should still be navigable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add the v1.0.0 deployment procedure for vm4006
Measured, not estimated: the state directory is 878 MB, of which 878 MB
are the nine build worktrees. What cannot be recreated is 84 KB, so the
snapshot before an in-place switch is instant and the rollback is one
sequence of moves.
Records the three expected non-failures — a cold Gradle volume, one
image rebuild, containers left under the old label — and that
`gitea.statusContext` needs no attention because it comes from the
watched repository's committed configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Rename the machine configuration along with its directory
Found by the deployment to vm4006: the move renames the directory and
leaves the file inside it alone, so the machine configuration ended up at
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` — a pair of names the lookup did not
expect, because it pairs directory and file name. The instance resolved
empty credentials, no public URL and none of the host's build
definitions, and said nothing about it. That is the exact failure this
change exists to prevent, produced by the change itself.
`StateDirMigration` now renames the configuration with the directory,
unless one under the current name is already there. `ConfigFiles` carries
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` as a third candidate as well, for a
directory somebody moved by hand, where the migration never runs and so
can rename nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Let init see a configuration under its previous name
`init --systemd` runs `init`, and its "already exists" check knew only
the current name. On the one repository still carrying `.gittally.yml`
it therefore wrote a fresh template `.werkator.yml` beside it — and
since the current name wins, that repository would have built the
template's `./gradlew test` instead of what its own configuration says.
Found on vm4006, where the file was created in the watched working tree
and removed again by hand.
Both checks now ask `ConfigFiles`, so init decides existence by the same
rule the loader uses to read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Record the v1.0.0 deployment to vm4006
Deployed from the branch as the final test of PR#1, and it did what a
final test is for: it found two silent-failure defects before the
service was started, both fixed and redeployed in the same window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Drop the control token left under the old localStorage key
The key is named after the product, so the rename left every browser
with a token under `gittally.controlToken`, which nothing reads any more
and which "forget token" can no longer reach. It is a write-scope token
in a browser store, not a password, but a secret nobody owns is worth
one line to remove.
Removed on load. The token on the server is unchanged, so re-entering it
once per browser is all the rename costs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Build the branch's current head from the branches view
A row on /branches stands for a branch, not for a past run, so its
restart button now builds what origin has now (`atOriginHead`). Repeating
an overtaken commit answers a question nobody asked, and a build gate
comparing HEAD against origin — hsadmin-ng's `prQuickCheck` — cannot even
pass on it: the retry of a superseded master commit is a guaranteed red.
Latest and history are unchanged. There a row *is* a recorded run, and
repeating it means that commit.
The row keeps its build definition either way: a retry of `main@pitest`
runs the new commit as `pitest`, on the branch the record names. A branch
that is gone from origin is refused by name instead of silently falling
back to the old commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Document the branches-view restart (PR#000)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Release v1.0.1: the branches view builds the current head
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* renaming from gitTally to Werkator
* Rename GitTally to Werkator
`gitTally` is the name of another product in the git space, so the
rename is a precaution; nothing about what the build system does changes.
The name follows one rule: `Werkator` where it is prose, capitalized
where it is a Kotlin type and its file, lowercase everywhere a machine
reads it — the command, packages, paths, configuration keys and values,
the Gitea check context. Environment variables keep their convention and
are uppercase throughout.
Every configuration file is still found under its pre-rename name
(`ConfigFiles`): `.gittally.yml` at the repository root, in a build
worktree and as committed on a branch, `.git/gittally/.gittally.yml` for
the machine layer. The current name wins where both exist, and the old
file is then ignored rather than merged — two files side by side are a
half-done rename, not a layering. Without the fallback an installation
that updated without renaming would not fail: a configuration that is
not found leaves every setting at its default, so it would come up
looking healthy while having forgotten its credentials and its builds.
`docs/werkator-migrationsplan.md` lists what the fallback does not
cover and has to be moved by hand — above all the state directory
`.git/werkator/`, which holds the build history, the control token and
the worktrees, and has no fallback of its own.
`docs/migration-from-legacy.md` is deleted with this: it mapped the
legacy script's environment variables, and every host it addressed has
long since moved to the YAML configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Move the pre-rename state directory at the first start
The configuration is found under either name, the state is not: build
history, control token, auto-build slots and worktrees live at one fixed
path. An installation that updates without moving `.git/gittally` would
not fail — it would come up with an empty history and a fresh control
token, quietly. So the first start moves it instead of the release notes
asking for it.
Only when the old directory exists and the new one does not. Where both
exist nothing is touched and a warning names the leftover: which of the
two is the live state is not something to guess. A failed move is an
error in the log, never an abort — a CI must not hang on it.
The worktrees are dropped rather than moved, since they point at their
old path in both directions; `GitWorktreeWorkspaces` prunes the stale
admin entry and recreates each on its branch's next build. A generated
systemd unit moves with the directory and leaves its symlink dangling,
which is warned about — the running service is unaffected, the next
start is not.
Runs from `CliRunner`, before any command resolves a path under the
directory, and so before the second context of `server` exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Document PR#1: the rename to Werkator
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Drop the legacy env-to-YAML conversion from the setup tool
The old bash script configured itself through `GITTALLY_*` environment
variables. The blanket rename rewrote those literals, so the converter
was looking for `WERKATOR_*` — a spelling no host has ever written. Fed
a real legacy file it would have found nothing and written an almost
empty configuration, without an error, which is the same silent failure
this rename is otherwise careful to avoid.
The conversion has served its purpose with the vm2176 to vm4006
migration, so it goes instead of being repaired. What remains is the
setup of a new instance: the preconditions, the credential prompt, and
the machine configuration written mode 600 — now carrying the host's
public URL as well, since that is host-specific too. Everything the
repository builds comes from `init` and its templates.
It also stops emitting a legacy `branches:` section, which step 18 is
about to reject outright.
`docs/plan/00-legacy-analysis.md` and `13-nginx-tls.md` get the real
`GITTALLY_*` spelling back: they record what the old script read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Describe this repository's build with a build definition
Its own `.werkator.yml` still used the deprecated `branches` section
with an `autoBuild` schedule that was switched off. That section is read
only while nothing defines a build at all, and step 18 rejects it by
name — so this repository would have blocked the precondition of that
step, which asks that no configuration still in play carries it.
Nothing about the build changes: `builds.default` with `trigger.onPush`
is a build of every new commit on every branch, which is what the branch
section said. `config:print --full` resolves the definition completely
and logs no deprecation warning any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Stop documenting the pre-rename fallback for users
Exactly one repository is configured with the old names, and it is
migrated by hand in the same move as this release. The fallback is
therefore a transition of days, not a feature anyone reading the release
notes or the configuration reference has to plan around.
Removed from `releases.html` and `docs/configuration.md`. The mechanism
itself is unchanged and stays described where it is worked on: in
`ConfigFiles`, in `StateDirMigration`, and in the migration plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Bring the PR-doc to its final state
The `statusContext` question is answered and marked as decided rather
than left standing: it is the one value a human reads as a label, and it
stays lowercase because Gitea matches it and the client reads it back,
which makes it a value.
Also records that the pre-rename fallback is deliberately absent from
the release notes and the configuration reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Release v1.0.0: Werkator
The release after 0.9.21 is 1.0.0, because a product that changes its
name is better off counting from one under it. The release note says as
much, so the jump is not read as a claim about maturity — plan steps 14,
17 and 18 are still open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Correct the PR-doc about the version
It claimed the PR carries no version bump, which the release commit made
untrue, and records why the number is 1.0.0 instead of 0.9.22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Point the legacy references at the history
`legacy/gitTally` was removed from the tree with the rename, but the
README still described it as a reference kept in the repository, and the
plan told an executing session to read parts of it — including step 14,
which is open.
The README section is gone; `docs/plan/README.md`, step 14 and the
legacy analysis now say where the script actually is
(`git show 7f55068^:legacy/gitTally`). Executed steps and ADR 0004 keep
their wording: they record what was true when they ran.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Retarget the links in the historic PR-docs
The package rename moved every file the older PR-docs link to, leaving
60 dead links. Only the link targets are rewritten, never the visible
text and never a statement: those documents record what was true when
they were written, GitTally in the prose included. A snapshot may be
outdated; it should still be navigable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add the v1.0.0 deployment procedure for vm4006
Measured, not estimated: the state directory is 878 MB, of which 878 MB
are the nine build worktrees. What cannot be recreated is 84 KB, so the
snapshot before an in-place switch is instant and the rollback is one
sequence of moves.
Records the three expected non-failures — a cold Gradle volume, one
image rebuild, containers left under the old label — and that
`gitea.statusContext` needs no attention because it comes from the
watched repository's committed configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Rename the machine configuration along with its directory
Found by the deployment to vm4006: the move renames the directory and
leaves the file inside it alone, so the machine configuration ended up at
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` — a pair of names the lookup did not
expect, because it pairs directory and file name. The instance resolved
empty credentials, no public URL and none of the host's build
definitions, and said nothing about it. That is the exact failure this
change exists to prevent, produced by the change itself.
`StateDirMigration` now renames the configuration with the directory,
unless one under the current name is already there. `ConfigFiles` carries
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` as a third candidate as well, for a
directory somebody moved by hand, where the migration never runs and so
can rename nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Let init see a configuration under its previous name
`init --systemd` runs `init`, and its "already exists" check knew only
the current name. On the one repository still carrying `.gittally.yml`
it therefore wrote a fresh template `.werkator.yml` beside it — and
since the current name wins, that repository would have built the
template's `./gradlew test` instead of what its own configuration says.
Found on vm4006, where the file was created in the watched working tree
and removed again by hand.
Both checks now ask `ConfigFiles`, so init decides existence by the same
rule the loader uses to read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Record the v1.0.0 deployment to vm4006
Deployed from the branch as the final test of PR#1, and it did what a
final test is for: it found two silent-failure defects before the
service was started, both fixed and redeployed in the same window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Drop the control token left under the old localStorage key
The key is named after the product, so the rename left every browser
with a token under `gittally.controlToken`, which nothing reads any more
and which "forget token" can no longer reach. It is a write-scope token
in a browser store, not a password, but a secret nobody owns is worth
one line to remove.
Removed on load. The token on the server is unchanged, so re-entering it
once per browser is all the rename costs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Also fixes the log-capture test added with step 19: the test JVM logs at
WARN, so the INFO line reporting the recovered fetch never reached the
appender. The helper now lowers the level explicitly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A watcher that cannot fetch leaves the server perfectly reachable and
every branch row stale — a calm list that implies nothing changed. The
state was already recorded and served at /api/watcher; only nothing
rendered it.
The banner lives in the shared nav fragment, so every view inherits it,
and is fed from the view's own polling tick without being chained to it.
It stays separate from live-indicator: that one reports whether the
browser reaches the server, this one whether the server reaches origin.
Also caps the log volume the outage exposed: a lasting fetch failure is
logged when its message changes, not on every cycle, and the recovery is
logged once. Same for an invalid atTimes slot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A wrong git token made the watcher fail every fetch for 57 minutes while
the branches view kept showing its last known list. WatcherState already
records lastFetchError and /api/watcher already serves it; only the UI
never renders it.
The step also folds in the logging volume: one outage wrote 297 identical
warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pinning is one rule — strip the key from the branch layer — but the keys
fall into two groups by where they are meant to live: what only the
machine can know, and what belongs in the repository yet must not be
decided per branch. docker.enabled/network moves from the first group to
the second once the committed config carries it.
The KDoc says explicitly that the distinction is documentary, so nobody
looks for two mechanisms in stripPinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Not a shrink to the pinned docker keys but a full removal: the pinning
strips the branch layer only, so master's committed config is merged
unstripped and its sandbox policy reaches every branch. The nightly job
moves there with it. A rollback below v0.9.19 is no longer provided for.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The machine config on vm4006 lost its legacy branches block, renamed
builds.master to builds.nightly and moved build/libs into the default
definition's artifactDirs. Step 18 still described that work as pending
and named a rollback path to 0.9.18 that the file no longer supports.
What is left there is the shrinking to genuinely host-specific keys,
plus the open question where the nightly rebuild belongs once master
carries its own config.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`onPush`, `atTimes`, `branches`, and `activeWithin` move into a nested
`trigger`. The split is structural on purpose: the inheritance from
`builds.default` now subtracts one key instead of a list of four, so a
selector added to `TriggerConfig` later is non-inheritable by
construction rather than because someone remembered to extend the list.
A definition still writing those keys flat is refused by name, per file
and scoped like the version check — the machine and project config abort
the start, a branch's committed config fails only that branch. Ignoring
them would leave the build with no trigger at all, which is a job that
quietly stops running: the failure this refusal exists to prevent.
Two more things a definition can now say:
- A `!` prefix in `trigger.branches` excludes, and an exclusion wins
whatever the order. `["*", "!master"]` gives one branch a build of its
own without the default build running over it as well — until now the
only way out of that double build was to drop the second definition's
push trigger.
- `statusContext` overrides the Gitea check this build reports as, empty
keeping the repository-wide one. Two builds of a commit shared a
context and overwrote each other's result, so a quick check beside a
long build was not readable in Gitea. Pinned like `requirePullRequest`:
a branch that could pick its context could take over the check a branch
protection rule depends on.
Fixed on the way: a branch whose builds all belong to named definitions
rendered an empty row in the branches view, reading as "never built"
directly beside its real builds. That row was unreachable before the
exclusion patterns made such a branch possible.
