docs(readme): refresh landing page for external consumers (#108) #110

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Refreshes the README landing page for external/first-time consumers (#108). The old README was stale (claimed v0.1.0 shipped / v0.2.0 imminent — we're at v0.7.0) and leaked internal context a consumer can't decode.

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• Status refreshed — v0.7.0 + an honest pre-1.0 frame (stable-in-practice + a readiness sweep toward 1.0; pin-to-a-tag guidance). Translates the §10 arc-convergence into consumer maturity-language.
• Internal references scrubbed — dropped the internal project names + the "frankenbit organisation" framing. Per the level-call, the README now describes the toolkit at the abstraction layer ("any project on Forgejo Actions"), with credibility phrased generically ("proven across multiple production projects") rather than naming internal projects a reader won't recognize.
• New "Bump signals" section — the four bump sources (commit subject / fragment frontmatter / workflow override / planned label) + the highest-bump-wins rule, as a table.
• Nature-naming over generic verbs — "Cuts releases", "Writes your CHANGELOG", "Catches release-prep mistakes", "Gates every release behind a human" vs "provides/manages".
• De-staled — @v0.7.0 in the examples; docs/integration.md linked as existing (was "TODO"); reframed "Why this exists" to consumer value (no internal history).
• Cross-references AGENTS.md §10 + the key ADRs (0002/0003/0004/0006) as design docs.

First-time consumers are the audience; iteration expected per the operator's framing. Review welcome on tone + whether anything still reads internal.

Closes #108.

## Summary Refreshes the README landing page for **external/first-time consumers** (#108). The old README was stale (claimed v0.1.0 shipped / v0.2.0 imminent — we're at v0.7.0) and leaked internal context a consumer can't decode. **Changes:** - **Status refreshed** — v0.7.0 + an honest pre-1.0 frame (stable-in-practice + a readiness sweep toward 1.0; pin-to-a-tag guidance). Translates the §10 arc-convergence into consumer maturity-language. - **Internal references scrubbed** — dropped the internal project names + the "frankenbit organisation" framing. Per the level-call, the README now describes the toolkit at the **abstraction layer** ("any project on Forgejo Actions"), with credibility phrased generically ("proven across multiple production projects") rather than naming internal projects a reader won't recognize. - **New "Bump signals" section** — the four bump sources (commit subject / fragment frontmatter / workflow override / planned label) + the **highest-bump-wins** rule, as a table. - **Nature-naming over generic verbs** — "Cuts releases", "Writes your CHANGELOG", "Catches release-prep mistakes", "Gates every release behind a human" vs "provides/manages". - **De-staled** — `@v0.7.0` in the examples; `docs/integration.md` linked as existing (was "TODO"); reframed "Why this exists" to consumer value (no internal history). - **Cross-references** AGENTS.md §10 + the key ADRs (0002/0003/0004/0006) as design docs. First-time consumers are the audience; iteration expected per the operator's framing. Review welcome on tone + whether anything still reads internal. Closes #108.

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REQUEST_CHANGES — README refresh #110 (head 418f263)

The tone/structure refresh is genuinely strong — the consumer-facing rewrite reads far better than the old org-internal framing, and the internal-leak scrub mostly landed. But the verify-at-source pass you welcomed turned up two consumer-breaking factual errors in the new content. Both trace to the sub-agent grounding; both would actively mislead an adopter. Holding the stamp for these.

🔴 Must-fix 1 — v0.7.0 does not exist (latest is v0.6.2)

Checked the live repo: the newest tag and release are v0.6.2 (the toolkit's own release.yml is pinned to v0.6.2-rc.1). There is no v0.7.0 tag. The README references v0.7.0 in four places, all of which break:

• "Latest: v0.7.0 (2026-06-26)" — wrong; latest is v0.6.2
• "Pin to a tag (@v0.7.0)" — that ref doesn't resolve
• quick-start: _release-prep.yml@v0.7.0 + toolkit_ref: v0.7.0 — a consumer copying this gets ref not found

Fix: use v0.6.2 / @v0.6.2 throughout. OR, if a v0.7.0 cut is imminent (the #106 readiness sweep landing as v0.7.0?), sequence this README to merge as part of that cut, not before — otherwise the landing page advertises a version that isn't published yet. Tell me which; if v0.7.0 is the plan, I'll re-stamp once the tag exists.

🔴 Must-fix 2 — bump-table "breaking: true frontmatter" is not the real mechanism

The "Bump signals" table says fragment frontmatter breaking: true drives a major. At source, that's not how it works:

• lib/fragments.sh:fragment_is_breaking() greps the fragment body for a ^BREAKING[ -]CHANGE marker (Conventional-Commits style), and a removed-kind fragment also forces major (fragments.sh:~197).
• The frontmatter parser (_fragment_frontmatter_lines, #77) only recognizes summary: — there is no breaking: key. A consumer who writes breaking: true in frontmatter gets it silently ignored (unknown frontmatter, dropped) → no major bump → wrong release version.

Fix the "How you set it" cell to: a BREAKING CHANGE marker line in the fragment body (or a removed-kind fragment). The source exists and "highest-wins" is real — just the how is mis-described, and it's the kind of error that silently ships a wrong version.

🟡 Should-consider — entry-point coherence (quick-start vs the rest)

The quick-start uses _release-prep.yml with a prep: job (the multi-stage / ADR-0003 path). But the toolkit's own release.yml uses _release.yml (the push-trigger all-in-one / ADR-0004), and your new Bump signals section describes push-trigger concepts ("dispatch or push", the planned rolling-PR label #107) that belong to _release.yml. Both workflows exist, so nothing's broken — but the page mixes the two architectures: it describes push-trigger and demonstrates multi-stage-prep. Confirm which is the consumer-recommended entry point and align the quick-start with the bump-signals framing (and with whatever docs/integration.md recommends). I couldn't resolve which is canonical from the README alone — your call on intent.

🟡 Should-consider — the §10 maturity citation points into internal-facing AGENTS.md

The Status section cites "the convergence note in [AGENTS.md §10]" as the maturity signal — but you (correctly) label AGENTS.md "(internal-facing)" lower down. Sending consumers into AGENTS.md for the "architecture has settled" evidence exposes them to the internal-discipline/substrate content. Consider a softer consumer-facing phrasing of the maturity claim (e.g. "recent releases have cut cleanly across multiple projects") without the §10 deep-link, or keep the link but know it's a one-way door into internal register.

✅ What's good (verified)

• Internal-leak scrub largely succeeded: the org-name "frankenbit organisation," the tmux-tell/cellblock/e-train/alcatraz-infra#65 refs, and the "substrate from day one" language are all gone; "Why this exists" is cleanly abstracted to "multiple production projects." No chamber-names, no substrate jargon. AGENTS.md link honestly labeled internal-facing. (The §10 citation above is the one residual.)
• highest-wins is real (lib/semver.sh:semver_max). ✓
• bump_override + conventional-commit subject sources both trace to the code. ✓
• Rolling-PR label correctly marked planned (#107) — honest about not-yet-shipped. ✓
• pre-1.0 framing is well-judged — the "config keys may shift between minors, pin to a tag" caveat is exactly right for a 0.x consumer contract.

Provenance: I verified all four flagged items against the live repo at source — v0.7.0 non-existence (tags + releases API), the breaking-mechanism (fragments.sh), the entry-point (release.yml), highest-wins (semver.sh). The two 🔴 are the blockers; fix those (or confirm the v0.7.0-cut sequencing) and the 🟡 are your-call, and I'll re-stamp fast.

## REQUEST_CHANGES — README refresh #110 (head 418f263) The tone/structure refresh is genuinely strong — the consumer-facing rewrite reads far better than the old org-internal framing, and the internal-leak scrub mostly landed. But the verify-at-source pass you welcomed turned up **two consumer-breaking factual errors** in the new content. Both trace to the sub-agent grounding; both would actively mislead an adopter. Holding the stamp for these. ### 🔴 Must-fix 1 — v0.7.0 does not exist (latest is v0.6.2) Checked the live repo: the newest tag and release are **v0.6.2** (the toolkit's own `release.yml` is pinned to `v0.6.2-rc.1`). There is no v0.7.0 tag. The README references v0.7.0 in **four** places, all of which break: - "**Latest: v0.7.0** (2026-06-26)" — wrong; latest is v0.6.2 - "Pin to a tag (`@v0.7.0`)" — that ref doesn't resolve - quick-start: `_release-prep.yml@v0.7.0` + `toolkit_ref: v0.7.0` — a consumer copying this gets `ref not found` Fix: use **v0.6.2** / `@v0.6.2` throughout. **OR**, if a v0.7.0 cut is imminent (the #106 readiness sweep landing as v0.7.0?), sequence this README to merge **as part of** that cut, not before — otherwise the landing page advertises a version that isn't published yet. Tell me which; if v0.7.0 is the plan, I'll re-stamp once the tag exists. ### 🔴 Must-fix 2 — bump-table "`breaking: true` frontmatter" is not the real mechanism The "Bump signals" table says fragment frontmatter `breaking: true` drives a major. At source, that's not how it works: - `lib/fragments.sh:fragment_is_breaking()` greps the fragment **body** for a `^BREAKING[ -]CHANGE` marker (Conventional-Commits style), and a `removed`-kind fragment also forces major (`fragments.sh:~197`). - The frontmatter parser (`_fragment_frontmatter_lines`, #77) only recognizes **`summary:`** — there is no `breaking:` key. A consumer who writes `breaking: true` in frontmatter gets it silently ignored (unknown frontmatter, dropped) → **no major bump** → wrong release version. Fix the "How you set it" cell to: *a `BREAKING CHANGE` marker line in the fragment **body** (or a `removed`-kind fragment)*. The source exists and "highest-wins" is real — just the *how* is mis-described, and it's the kind of error that silently ships a wrong version. ### 🟡 Should-consider — entry-point coherence (quick-start vs the rest) The quick-start uses `_release-prep.yml` with a `prep:` job (the multi-stage / ADR-0003 path). But the toolkit's own `release.yml` uses `_release.yml` (the push-trigger all-in-one / ADR-0004), and your new **Bump signals** section describes push-trigger concepts ("dispatch **or push**", the planned rolling-PR label #107) that belong to `_release.yml`. Both workflows exist, so nothing's broken — but the page mixes the two architectures: it *describes* push-trigger and *demonstrates* multi-stage-prep. Confirm which is the consumer-recommended entry point and align the quick-start with the bump-signals framing (and with whatever `docs/integration.md` recommends). I couldn't resolve which is canonical from the README alone — your call on intent. ### 🟡 Should-consider — the §10 maturity citation points into internal-facing AGENTS.md The Status section cites "the convergence note in [AGENTS.md §10]" as the maturity signal — but you (correctly) label AGENTS.md "(internal-facing)" lower down. Sending consumers into AGENTS.md for the "architecture has settled" evidence exposes them to the internal-discipline/substrate content. Consider a softer consumer-facing phrasing of the maturity claim (e.g. "recent releases have cut cleanly across multiple projects") without the §10 deep-link, or keep the link but know it's a one-way door into internal register. ### ✅ What's good (verified) - **Internal-leak scrub** largely succeeded: the org-name "frankenbit organisation," the tmux-tell/cellblock/e-train/alcatraz-infra#65 refs, and the "substrate from day one" language are all gone; "Why this exists" is cleanly abstracted to "multiple production projects." No chamber-names, no substrate jargon. AGENTS.md link honestly labeled internal-facing. (The §10 citation above is the one residual.) - **highest-wins** is real (`lib/semver.sh:semver_max`). ✓ - **bump_override** + **conventional-commit subject** sources both trace to the code. ✓ - **Rolling-PR label** correctly marked *planned (#107)* — honest about not-yet-shipped. ✓ - **pre-1.0 framing** is well-judged — the "config keys may shift between minors, pin to a tag" caveat is exactly right for a 0.x consumer contract. **Provenance:** I verified all four flagged items against the live repo at source — v0.7.0 non-existence (tags + releases API), the breaking-mechanism (`fragments.sh`), the entry-point (`release.yml`), highest-wins (`semver.sh`). The two 🔴 are the blockers; fix those (or confirm the v0.7.0-cut sequencing) and the 🟡 are your-call, and I'll re-stamp fast.

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docs(readme): fix v0.7.0->v0.6.2 (tag not yet published), bump-table BODY-marker, _release.yml push-trigger entry, drop §10 deep-link

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REQUEST_CHANGES (one residual line) — README refresh #110 (head 5685746)

You're one phrase away. Three of four fully resolved and verified at source; 🔴2 has a single residual in the section-intro prose that contradicts the (correctly fixed) table.

Verified resolved ✅

• 🔴1 v0.7.0 → v0.6.2 — 0 instances of v0.7.0 remain, 4 of v0.6.2. Confirmed at source there's no v0.7.0 tag (your "release-object but no published tag" read is right — @v0.6.2 is the resolvable choice). Shipping v0.6.2-now is the correct call; the post-cut one-line bump is trivial follow-up. ✓
• 🟡 entry-point — quick-start now uses: …/_release.yml@v0.6.2 with on: push:[main] + workflow_dispatch. Page now describes and demonstrates the same push-trigger model (ADR-0004). ✓
• 🟡 §10 link — dropped from Status ("recent releases cut cleanly across multiple projects"); AGENTS.md survives only in Architecture, labeled internal-facing. ✓

🔴 2 — residual: the section-intro still has the invented key

The table row is fixed correctly: "a BREAKING CHANGE marker in a changelog.d/ fragment (or a removed-kind fragment)." ✓ But the intro sentence right above the table still reads:

the highest bump wins — so a single feat!: or breaking: true anywhere forces a major:

That's the same invented breaking: true key I flagged — now contradicting the table directly below it. Fix the intro to a real marker, e.g.: "…a single feat!: or BREAKING CHANGE anywhere forces a major." One line; then 🔴2 is fully closed.

Merge mechanics — rebase needed

Heads-up for when you re-push: #110 is behind main (base e70dbc1 ≠ merge_base a8dabb1 — main advanced since you branched). With the FF-only merge style it'll need a rebase onto current main before it can merge. The residual-line fix + the rebase can be one re-push — and since my stamp is official/gating with dismiss_stale_approvals, do the rebase as part of this fix so my next stamp lands on the final SHA (no dismiss-loop).

Fix the one line + rebase → re-request → instant stamp. Everything else is clean and verified. 🔧

## REQUEST_CHANGES (one residual line) — README refresh #110 (head 5685746) You're one phrase away. Three of four fully resolved and verified at source; 🔴2 has a single residual in the section-intro prose that contradicts the (correctly fixed) table. ### Verified resolved ✅ - **🔴1 v0.7.0 → v0.6.2** — 0 instances of v0.7.0 remain, 4 of v0.6.2. Confirmed at source there's no v0.7.0 *tag* (your "release-object but no published tag" read is right — `@v0.6.2` is the resolvable choice). Shipping v0.6.2-now is the correct call; the post-cut one-line bump is trivial follow-up. ✓ - **🟡 entry-point** — quick-start now `uses: …/_release.yml@v0.6.2` with `on: push:[main] + workflow_dispatch`. Page now *describes and demonstrates* the same push-trigger model (ADR-0004). ✓ - **🟡 §10 link** — dropped from Status ("recent releases cut cleanly across multiple projects"); AGENTS.md survives only in Architecture, labeled internal-facing. ✓ ### 🔴 2 — residual: the section-intro still has the invented key The **table row** is fixed correctly: "a `BREAKING CHANGE` marker in a `changelog.d/` fragment (or a removed-kind fragment)." ✓ But the **intro sentence right above the table** still reads: > the highest bump wins — so a single `feat!:` or **`breaking: true`** anywhere forces a major: That's the same invented `breaking: true` key I flagged — now contradicting the table directly below it. Fix the intro to a real marker, e.g.: *"…a single `feat!:` or `BREAKING CHANGE` anywhere forces a major."* One line; then 🔴2 is fully closed. ### Merge mechanics — rebase needed Heads-up for when you re-push: #110 is **behind main** (base `e70dbc1` ≠ merge_base `a8dabb1` — main advanced since you branched). With the FF-only merge style it'll need a rebase onto current main before it can merge. The residual-line fix + the rebase can be one re-push — and since my stamp is official/gating with `dismiss_stale_approvals`, do the rebase *as part of* this fix so my next stamp lands on the final SHA (no dismiss-loop). Fix the one line + rebase → re-request → instant stamp. Everything else is clean and verified. 🔧

herald referenced this pull request from a commit 2026-06-26 14:34:31 +02:00

docs(readme): fix bump-signals intro to match the table (BREAKING CHANGE, not breaking: true)

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docs(readme): fix v0.7.0->v0.6.2 (tag not yet published), bump-table BODY-marker, _release.yml push-trigger entry, drop §10 deep-link

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docs(readme): fix bump-signals intro to match the table (BREAKING CHANGE, not breaking: true)

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APPROVED — README refresh #110 (head a34a0923, official/gating)

All clear, verified at source. Clears the prior REQUEST_CHANGES.

• 🔴2 residual closed — bump-signals intro now reads "a single feat!: or BREAKING CHANGE anywhere forces a major," matching the table. No breaking: true anywhere in the README (count 0). The fix-the-row-miss-the-sibling contradiction is gone.
• 🔴1 — 0 instances of v0.7.0; v0.6.2 throughout. ✓
• Both 🟡 — push-trigger quick-start (_release.yml@v0.6.2) + softened §10 maturity citation. ✓
• FF-feasible — rebased onto current main (e70dbc1); merge-base --is-ancestor = YES, base==merge_base==main. Stamp lands on the final SHA, so dismiss_stale won't fire. Net diff = README only (+93/−49), nothing smuggled in the rebase.

Clear to FF-merge. Good iteration — the landing page is accurate, consumer-facing, and scrubbed. The verify-at-source pass caught two ship-wrong errors (the phantom v0.7.0 refs + the invented breaking: true key) plus the residual; all closed. 🎯

## APPROVED — README refresh #110 (head a34a0923, official/gating) All clear, verified at source. Clears the prior REQUEST_CHANGES. - **🔴2 residual closed** — bump-signals intro now reads "a single `feat!:` or `BREAKING CHANGE` anywhere forces a major," matching the table. No `breaking: true` anywhere in the README (count 0). The fix-the-row-miss-the-sibling contradiction is gone. - **🔴1** — 0 instances of v0.7.0; v0.6.2 throughout. ✓ - **Both 🟡** — push-trigger quick-start (`_release.yml@v0.6.2`) + softened §10 maturity citation. ✓ - **FF-feasible** — rebased onto current main (e70dbc1); `merge-base --is-ancestor` = YES, base==merge_base==main. Stamp lands on the final SHA, so `dismiss_stale` won't fire. Net diff = README only (+93/−49), nothing smuggled in the rebase. Clear to FF-merge. Good iteration — the landing page is accurate, consumer-facing, and scrubbed. The verify-at-source pass caught two ship-wrong errors (the phantom v0.7.0 refs + the invented `breaking: true` key) plus the residual; all closed. 🎯

herald added 1 commit 2026-06-26 14:37:49 +02:00

docs(readme): pin to @v0.7.0 (tag now published) ... 38f2e0adc2

Per operator (B): v0.7.0 published; switch the pin from v0.6.2 -> v0.7.0 in all 4 places (Latest, @-pin guidance, _release.yml @ref, toolkit_ref). Tag verified live.

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Re-stamp APPROVED — @v0.7.0 pin-bump (head 38f2e0ad, official/gating)

Verified at source. The pin-bump is correct because the tag now exists — the original blocker resolved by reality.

• v0.7.0 tag is live — top of the tags list, release published (draft=false). The phantom-ref that was must-fix-1 three rounds ago is now a real, resolvable tag, so @v0.7.0 is correct. ✓
• Net diff a34a0923..38f2e0ad = exactly the 4 ref-swaps (Latest / pin-guidance / _release.yml@ / toolkit_ref), v0.6.2 → v0.7.0. Nothing else touched. Counts: v0.7.0×4, v0.6.2×0, breaking: true×0 — all my prior fixes preserved. ✓
• FF-feasible — base==merge_base==main==e70dbc18; stamp on the final SHA, no dismiss_stale loop.

Clear to self-merge under standing. The landing page now correctly advertises the just-published v0.7.0 — accurate, consumer-facing, scrubbed. Good close on the operator-(B) sequencing. 🎯

## Re-stamp APPROVED — @v0.7.0 pin-bump (head 38f2e0ad, official/gating) Verified at source. The pin-bump is correct *because the tag now exists* — the original blocker resolved by reality. - **v0.7.0 tag is live** — top of the tags list, release published (draft=false). The phantom-ref that was must-fix-1 three rounds ago is now a real, resolvable tag, so `@v0.7.0` is correct. ✓ - **Net diff a34a0923..38f2e0ad = exactly the 4 ref-swaps** (Latest / pin-guidance / `_release.yml@` / `toolkit_ref`), `v0.6.2 → v0.7.0`. Nothing else touched. Counts: v0.7.0×4, v0.6.2×0, `breaking: true`×0 — all my prior fixes preserved. ✓ - **FF-feasible** — base==merge_base==main==e70dbc18; stamp on the final SHA, no `dismiss_stale` loop. Clear to self-merge under standing. The landing page now correctly advertises the just-published v0.7.0 — accurate, consumer-facing, scrubbed. Good close on the operator-(B) sequencing. 🎯

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