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bvandeusen	d38585ed94	docs: true up the tag scheme against what the pipeline publishes (318 step 9) ... A doc describing a tag scheme the pipeline stopped using is worse than no doc — it is a confident wrong answer, and #3159 named it as the drift that had just bitten rule 148. build.yml (each edit ×3, once per build job): * The derived-values block claimed three values including a `tag` subcommand that no longer exists, and said "on dev the date tag is computed nowhere else". There are two values and no date tag. * The BASE-IMAGE FRESHNESS paragraph argued from a pin that no longer exists — "a date tag has to keep serving the bytes it served (fabledcurator:2026.7.17 still resolves to July's image)". Milestone 318 removed the argument's premise rather than answering it: with no version tags there is no immutable name a refresh could contradict, and rule 145 already allows a moving tag to be republished. Deleted the argument, kept a line saying why there is nothing to argue about (#3159's phrasing: the workflow becomes obviously correct instead of carefully correct). * The repoint comment said ":c-<sha> and the date pin". There is no date pin. * "its set is too narrow — the direction that serves stale bytes on a pin" now names the failure that actually exists: the reuse check hits and the channel serves a web image bundling the previous XPI (#3156). README gains a "Versions and tags" section — the three tags, why there is no fourth, and the fact that with no registry name carrying it, the instance's own report is the only answer to "which build is this?". Also fixes two stale claims: three workflows (four since release.yml) and "AMO signing runs on main only", which has been false since milestone 271 step 6 signed on both channels. ci-requirements.md was missing milestones 313 and 318 entirely: no artifacts.sh, no label-keyed reuse, no FC_VERSION. Added those, plus the #3156/#3202 membership test (can changing this file change the published bytes — not is it copied in), and corrected packaging.sh's "two consumers" to three now that artifacts.sh reads it. docker-compose.yml needed nothing — it names `:dev` directly and never offered a pin target. Note #3127 and rule 145's relation notes are updated in Scribe.	2026-08-29 00:09:52 -04:00
bvandeusen	a3071a7549	fix(ci): the file that decides FC_VERSION now moves it (#3202) ... `scripts/artifacts.sh` decides both values the web image carries — the `fc.revision` label the reuse check compares and the `FC_VERSION` baked into the image — and was in no artifact's path set. So a change to `cmd_version` alone left every revision untouched, the reuse check hit, the build was skipped, and the published image went on reporting the OLD version format, indefinitely, until some unrelated commit forced a rebuild. Nothing goes red; the footer just shows a well-formed string of the wrong shape. Milestone 318 step 5 is the worked instance: b3989d0 -> rev=fb2c4d5b80be ver=2026.8.28.1249 5771fd5 -> rev=fb2c4d5b80be ver=2026.08.28.1249 bce894b -> rev=bce894ba2499 ver=2026.08.28.2208 Same revision across the zero-pad commit, so web's build was skipped. It cost nothing only by timing: FC_VERSION did not exist until step 6 landed one commit later. Web only, and that is the interesting part. Every artifact stamps a revision, but only web also stamps a version. A revision-only artifact needs no entry here, because changing how a revision is COMPUTED changes the derived value, which then disagrees with the label on the published image and forces a rebuild — the mechanism self-corrects, since it compares against a string stamped into a real artifact. Nothing compares a version to anything. That asymmetry is why this was invisible and is now written down in both files. Named as a file rather than `scripts`: release_notes.py sits beside it and only reads derived values, so it decides nothing and must not re-version web. This is #3156 one level up — packaging.sh excluded from the version it derives — so the guard is generalised rather than duplicated: one DERIVERS table naming each deriver and the artifacts whose identity it decides. The too-wide test gains a note saying where the line is, since "copied into no image" no longer settles it on its own.	2026-08-28 22:01:58 -04:00
bvandeusen	b6b9fd8287	ci: a release publishes a changelog, not an image (318 step 7) ... Step 2 took the build consequence away from a `v*` tag — `main` has already built and published the commit by the time anyone tags it, and rebuilding would re-push `:c-<sha>`, which rule 145 forbids even when the source matches. That left the tag with nothing to do at all. This is the job it has instead. Step 6 put the derived version in the Settings footer, so an operator can say WHICH build they are running; this says what is in it that was not in the one they ran last month. Both halves of one question (note #3127 §5). The previous release is found by walking ANCESTRY, not by sorting a list. That is load-bearing here specifically: rule 148 moved the tag shape from `v26.05.22.0` to `v2026.08.28.2208`, and lexicographically `v2026...` sorts BEFORE `v26...` — the third character is `0` against `6`. A sorted implementation would reach back past every new-shape tag to the newest old-shape one and publish months of commits as "changes since", looking entirely correct while doing it. `git describe --exclude` is immune to the shape change, and reachability is the more honest question anyway. The publisher GETs and PATCHes rather than POSTing and recovering the id from a 409 — note #3127 §6.7, which is ThoughtSync #2182's bug. A `v*` tag is created once so the conflict path is rare, but "rare" is how that one survived to be found somewhere else. Cross-checks are reported on the release, not enforced. The tag is already pushed by the time this runs, so failing would leave the operator with a tag, no release, and a red lane to explain it — while the release is still the useful object. It says so at the top when the tag names a version the web image does not report, or when the commit is not on `main` and the `:c-` rollback refs it lists were never published. Nothing runs on a schedule and nothing auto-tags on merge. Release tags are bookmarks (note #3127 §0); FC went twelve weeks without one and nothing was wrong. Also here: - `scripts/` joins the ruff lane. release_notes.py runs only on a tag push, so a syntax error there would otherwise surface at the one moment nobody wants to be debugging a workflow. - version.spec.js reads the workflow directory instead of listing three files by hand. Its own comment says the assertion should survive consumers coming and going; the hardcoded list was the part that could not, and release.yml would have joined the directory without joining the check. Tests build a synthetic history spanning the tag-shape change rather than leaning on this repo's tags, so the span assertion holds whether or not a checkout brought the tags along — a span test that quietly skips is worse than one that fails.	2026-08-28 20:57:25 -04:00
bvandeusen	bce894ba24	feat(settings): the instance reports which build it is (318 step 6) ... A dim line at the foot of Settings: `FabledCurator 2026.08.28.1249 · dev`. This is no longer a convenience. Milestone 318 stopped publishing version image tags, so an instance's own report is the ONLY answer to "which build is this?" — there is no registry name left to check it against. Note #3127 §5 says it directly: a wrong answer here has no second source to contradict it. Three states, kept distinct because collapsing any two of them lies: not asked yet render nothing asked, no version render "unknown" asked, has a version render it A blank footer reads as "no version", which is a different claim from "I cannot say". And a failed health call deliberately does NOT mark the build loaded — a network blip says nothing about the image, and presenting it as "unknown" would look like a defective build. Carried on /api/health rather than a new route: it answers at the same cost (two module constants, no I/O) and TopNav already fetches it app-wide, so a separate endpoint would mean a second request for two strings. Both fields are OMITTED when unset rather than sent empty. Absence already means "cannot say" — an image predating the field says exactly that by not having the key — so a second spelling would make every reader special-case it. The pre-existing test asserting the body is EXACTLY {"status": "ok"} is what keeps a well-meaning `or ""` default from creeping in. FC_CHANNEL now has one definition. It was read from the environment in extension.py and would have been read again here; the new build_info module holds both, and extension.py binds it as a module-level name so existing tests monkeypatch it exactly as before. Separate from config.py on purpose: those are operator settings meant to be changed, these describe the artifact. Channel sits beside the version, never inside it (rule 149), asserted from both ends. A `-dev` suffix would read as a 0 segment to the extension's parseInt comparator and make every dev build compare equal — #2993 exactly. Not hidden, per the operator and §7: the JS bundle and asset hashes fingerprint the build anyway, and "I'm on 2026.08.28.1249" is the single most useful line in a bug report.	2026-08-28 18:08:31 -04:00
bvandeusen	5771fd5770	build: zero-pad the derived version to YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM (318 step 5) ... `2026.8.28.1249` becomes `2026.08.28.1249`. Note #3127 §1 and rule 148 both specify the padded form. The old reasoning was that each segment should read as a plain integer, and it never held — comparison strips leading zeros on parse anyway, which the same paragraph said. What stripping actually bought was this project emitting `2026.8.28.1432` while a sibling emitted `2026.08.28.1432`: two shapes one character apart, which is the hard kind of difference to notice. Two obviously different formats would be safer than two nearly identical ones, and identical is safer still. Nothing already published is reordered: comparison is numeric per dot-segment, so `08` and `8` are equal. strip0 goes, and with it three of the four git calls per version — git's format-local takes the whole format string, and splitting it into pieces only ever existed to strip the padding between them. It also fixes a real edge the old helper mangled. A commit at 03:22 UTC derived `322` for its HHMM field, silently turning a four-digit field into three; it now derives `0322`. Verified against a real commit rather than reasoned about. Checked before relying on it, since step 8 feeds this to Firefox: the extension's comparator is `parseInt(n, 10)` with an explicit radix, so `08` reads as 8 and there is no octal hazard (rule 150). Two tests added. One pins the padded shape — the only thing keeping the family's projects emitting one string is an assertion that they do. The other asserts version and revision describe the same commit: they are derived independently, and a divergence would mean an instance naming one commit while carrying another's bytes, which is unfalsifiable from outside because both values still look well-formed.	2026-08-28 16:35:26 -04:00