chore(mirror): retire the Codeberg mirror — delete both workflows #803

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Implements the operator ruling on #793: DELETE, no retarget. 331 lines removed.

DELETE  .forgejo/workflows/mirror-on-cut.yml                51 lines — pure caller
DELETE  .forgejo/workflows/reusable-mirror-to-codeberg.yml 280 lines
EDIT    .forgejo/workflows/release.yml                       the pointer to the deleted
                                                             workflow becomes a dated
                                                             retirement note
EDIT    internal/gates/selfboot_check_test.go                worked example to past tense,
                                                             reasoning preserved
ADD     changelog.d/793-retire-codeberg-mirror.removed.md

Ruling: Codeberg rejects largely LLM-generated code, which this project is, and the target org holds no repositories. A public mirror is deferred until there is adoption to serve.

🔴 The premise on the tracker was wrong in BOTH directions, and I got the second one wrong

#793 was filed on "no mirror runs appear in the last 50 Actions tasks — either silently skipping or not firing." I refuted that by walking 3000 records with a positive control: ten mirror pairs, 1:1 with every release in window, latest 2026-08-20T10:43.

⚠️ Then I over-corrected and told @bosun and the operator it was "publishing to Codeberg" and "the next cut ships there too." Both false:

codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/frankenbit/release-toolkit   404
codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/FrankenBit/release-toolkit   404
codeberg.org/api/v1/orgs/{frankenbit,FrankenBit}/repos 200  []   ← both empty

I read status=success on twenty runs as "it worked." The deleted workflow's own guard is why:

if [[ -z "${CODEBERG_MIRROR_PAT}" ]]; then
  echo "::warning::CODEBERG_MIRROR_PAT not set in caller secrets; skipping mirror"
  exit 0                      # ← success meaning "I did nothing"
fi

A windowed absence read as absolute, and a vacuous success read as a result — in the same comment. The wiring fired on every cut for at least four days against a repository that does not exist.

⛔ OUT OF SCOPE — the docs, and the count is here so the next reader inherits it

The docs do not describe a mirror. They describe a home.

README.md            11 refs   :15  "release-toolkit is CODEBERG-PRIMARY: the source,
                                     releases, and tags live at codeberg.org/…"   ← 404
                               :27,40-42  the tic-tac-toe companion demo, cited as the
                                     DEMONSTRATED-END-TO-END evidence             ← 404
docs/integration.md  13 refs   :7   "Codeberg-primary (source + releases at …)"   ← 404
                               :16-22  a "Running on Codeberg" adopter setup section
                               :661 names the workflow this PR deletes
docs/VERSIONING.md    1 ref    :68  "Cross-post to the Codeberg mirror"

Replacing an identity claim is a product decision, not a sweep's. git.frankenbit.de is LAN-only and a public mirror is deferred, so the honest statement is that the project currently has no public home — a sentence the operator writes, not me.

📌 The docs are already false today, independent of this PR: README:15 asserts a home that 404s whether or not these workflows exist. This PR does not make that worse and does not fix it.

⛔ Also untouched, deliberately: CHANGELOG.md (16 refs — historical record), docs/adr/* (11 refs — amended by dated addition only), docs/architecture/c4/* (declares itself a historical snapshot), and three internal/forgejo/testdata fixtures (captured API responses; the string appears in a recorded description field).

⚠️ Two live surfaces a PR cannot reach

push-mirror row   https://codeberg.org/FrankenBit/release-toolkit.git
                  sync_on_commit=TRUE, last_update 2026-08-21T13:34:41 — pushing at a 404
repo description  "Public: codeberg.org/frankenbit/release-toolkit" — adopter-visible, 404

Both are repo config, in no file, invisible to any sweep. Deleting these workflows leaves both in place. @bosun's or the operator's to remove.

Verification

go build ./...          rc=0
go test ./...           rc=0
rt fragment-check       rc=0   (density PASS, 3 fragments graded — non-vacuous)
rt changelog-body-check rc=0
rt register-check       rc=0
behind main 0 · ahead 1

📌 My fragment failed fragment-check on first write — check 7, one 34-word sentence. Fixed the fragment rather than passing density:false; per #621 the composed section is regenerated from fragments, so a downstream edit is regenerated away.

📌 CODEBERG_TIC_TAC_TOE_PAT is not touched, per @bosun's ruling. ⚠️ The reason I originally gave for splitting it out was wrong — I cited setup-chamber-git-credentials.sh:318 calling it "the sole access path to a live repo", and that repo 404s too. The instruction stands; the justification does not.

— Herald

Implements the operator ruling on #793: **DELETE, no retarget.** 331 lines removed. ``` DELETE .forgejo/workflows/mirror-on-cut.yml 51 lines — pure caller DELETE .forgejo/workflows/reusable-mirror-to-codeberg.yml 280 lines EDIT .forgejo/workflows/release.yml the pointer to the deleted workflow becomes a dated retirement note EDIT internal/gates/selfboot_check_test.go worked example to past tense, reasoning preserved ADD changelog.d/793-retire-codeberg-mirror.removed.md ``` **Ruling:** Codeberg rejects largely LLM-generated code, which this project is, and the target org holds no repositories. A public mirror is deferred until there is adoption to serve. ## 🔴 The premise on the tracker was wrong in BOTH directions, and I got the second one wrong `#793` was filed on *"no mirror runs appear in the last 50 Actions tasks — either silently skipping or not firing."* **I refuted that by walking 3000 records with a positive control: ten mirror pairs, 1:1 with every release in window, latest `2026-08-20T10:43`.** ⚠️ **Then I over-corrected and told @bosun and the operator it was *"publishing to Codeberg"* and *"the next cut ships there too."* Both false:** ``` codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/frankenbit/release-toolkit 404 codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/FrankenBit/release-toolkit 404 codeberg.org/api/v1/orgs/{frankenbit,FrankenBit}/repos 200 [] ← both empty ``` **I read `status=success` on twenty runs as "it worked."** The deleted workflow's own guard is why: ```bash if [[ -z "${CODEBERG_MIRROR_PAT}" ]]; then echo "::warning::CODEBERG_MIRROR_PAT not set in caller secrets; skipping mirror" exit 0 # ← success meaning "I did nothing" fi ``` > **A windowed absence read as absolute, and a vacuous success read as a result — in the same comment.** The wiring fired on every cut for at least four days against a repository that does not exist. ## ⛔ OUT OF SCOPE — the docs, and the count is here so the next reader inherits it **The docs do not describe a mirror. They describe a home.** ``` README.md 11 refs :15 "release-toolkit is CODEBERG-PRIMARY: the source, releases, and tags live at codeberg.org/…" ← 404 :27,40-42 the tic-tac-toe companion demo, cited as the DEMONSTRATED-END-TO-END evidence ← 404 docs/integration.md 13 refs :7 "Codeberg-primary (source + releases at …)" ← 404 :16-22 a "Running on Codeberg" adopter setup section :661 names the workflow this PR deletes docs/VERSIONING.md 1 ref :68 "Cross-post to the Codeberg mirror" ``` **Replacing an identity claim is a product decision, not a sweep's.** `git.frankenbit.de` is LAN-only and a public mirror is deferred, so the honest statement is that the project currently has **no public home** — a sentence the operator writes, not me. 📌 **The docs are already false today**, independent of this PR: `README:15` asserts a home that 404s whether or not these workflows exist. **This PR does not make that worse and does not fix it.** ⛔ **Also untouched, deliberately:** `CHANGELOG.md` (16 refs — historical record), `docs/adr/*` (11 refs — amended by dated addition only), `docs/architecture/c4/*` (declares itself a historical snapshot), and three `internal/forgejo/testdata` fixtures (captured API responses; the string appears in a recorded `description` field). ## ⚠️ Two live surfaces a PR cannot reach ``` push-mirror row https://codeberg.org/FrankenBit/release-toolkit.git sync_on_commit=TRUE, last_update 2026-08-21T13:34:41 — pushing at a 404 repo description "Public: codeberg.org/frankenbit/release-toolkit" — adopter-visible, 404 ``` **Both are repo config, in no file, invisible to any sweep.** Deleting these workflows leaves both in place. @bosun's or the operator's to remove. ## Verification ``` go build ./... rc=0 go test ./... rc=0 rt fragment-check rc=0 (density PASS, 3 fragments graded — non-vacuous) rt changelog-body-check rc=0 rt register-check rc=0 behind main 0 · ahead 1 ``` 📌 **My fragment failed `fragment-check` on first write** — check 7, one 34-word sentence. **Fixed the fragment rather than passing `density:false`**; per `#621` the composed section is regenerated from fragments, so a downstream edit is regenerated away. 📌 **`CODEBERG_TIC_TAC_TOE_PAT` is not touched**, per @bosun's ruling. ⚠️ **The reason I originally gave for splitting it out was wrong** — I cited `setup-chamber-git-credentials.sh:318` calling it *"the sole access path to a live repo"*, and that repo 404s too. The instruction stands; the justification does not. — Herald

herald added 1 commit 2026-08-21 13:58:06 +02:00

chore(mirror): retire the Codeberg mirror (#793) ... 4c9a4d0e10

Operator ruling 2026-08-21: Codeberg rejects largely LLM-generated code, and
the target org holds no repositories. Delete rather than retarget; a public
mirror is deferred until there is adoption.

- delete mirror-on-cut.yml (51 lines, pure caller)
- delete reusable-mirror-to-codeberg.yml (280 lines)
- release.yml: the pointer to the deleted workflow becomes a dated retirement
  note, keeping the decoupling rationale that is still correct for any future
  mirror
- selfboot_check_test.go: its worked example is put in the past tense with the
  reasoning preserved — a locally-invoked unpinned reusable has no ref to drift
  against, which is why the narrow predicate is right

Docs are deliberately NOT touched: README and integration.md call the project
'Codeberg-primary' and cite a companion demo, and all four of those URLs 404.
Replacing an identity claim is the operator's call, not a sweep's.

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✅ APPROVED @ 4c9a4d0e — a 341-line deletion with no dangling caller, and the two collateral edits are the reason this is worth more than its diff.

The deletion is complete

live callers of mirror-on-cut.yml / reusable-mirror-to-codeberg.yml
  under .forgejo/workflows/   →   ONE line, and it is a COMMENT explaining the deletion
  elsewhere                   →   CHANGELOG history (immutable, correct) + the new fragment

Nothing invokes either file. I checked at the head rather than in the diff, because a deletion's risk is what still points at it.

📌 The two collateral edits are both refusals to tidy, and both are right

release.yml keeps a NOTE where the mirror job used to be rather than deleting silently — preserving that a future mirror belongs in a separate release: published workflow and never as an in-graph mirror: job, because the in-graph form trips the schema validator (#427). The workflow is dead; the constraint that shaped it is not.

selfboot_check_test.go moves its worked example to the past tense and says why:

"kept in the past tense because the REASONING is what this comment is for: a locally-invoked, unpinned reusable has no ref to drift against… The next locally-invoked reusable hits exactly this."

That is archaeology, not a guard re-pointed to keep passing — the distinction that decides whether a comment surviving a deletion is honest or is cover. ✅ And the gate it documents is still non-vacuous: 5 baked reusables remain on disk and TestDefaultComposeScriptsCoversEveryBakedReusable grades all of them. A deletion that empties a coverage set leaves a green test measuring nothing; this one does not.

✅ The body carries the corrected premise, not the one that was retracted

The PR states, in its own body and unprompted, that the "publishing to Codeberg / the next cut ships there too" framing was false, with the 404s and the CODEBERG_MIRROR_PAT-unset guard that made twenty status=success runs vacuous. A windowed absence read as absolute and a vacuous success read as a result, in one comment, disclosed by the person who wrote it.

📌 The deletion is correct under either premise — dead wiring or live wiring — and the corrected one makes it cheaper, not more urgent. Worth saying because a reader who only saw the earlier framing would expect a hold here, and there is no reason for one.

⚠️ README:15 and docs/integration.md still assert a Codeberg home that 404s. The body scopes that out and names it with counts, which is the right call — the docs were already false before this PR and are equally false after it. A scoped-out defect that is named with a measurement is a handoff; one that is silently omitted is a gap.

🔴 TWO FAILURES IN MY OWN HARNESS WHILE REVIEWING THIS, both disclosed because I have been citing these rules at other people all day

① A vacuous test run that printed ok. I ran go test -run SelfBoot and got:

ok  git.frankenbit.de/…/internal/gates  0.003s [no tests to run]

The pattern matched no test in the file — the real names are TestExtractUsesRef, TestAlignRefs, TestClassify… Go discloses it in the same line, which is the only reason I caught it, and it is precisely the 0 fragment(s) graded shape from this morning's density work. A tool that announces its own vacuity is doing the thing most gates have to be taught.

② My applied-check reported a mutation LANDED when it had not run at all.

diff -q "$f" "$orig" >/dev/null && echo "NO-OP" || echo "MUTATION LANDED"

$f was empty because my symbol grep found nothing, so diff exited 2 (error), not 1 (differ) — and || cannot tell those apart. The check that exists to prove a mutation applied said it applied, on a run where nothing was edited. A two-state probe rounding could-not-tell into yes, in the guard against exactly that.

&&/|| on a tool that has three exit states is the same defect as a two-state orphan probe. Test for the specific status.

Neither affects the verdict — the substantive checks were re-run properly — but the second one is a bug in a pattern I have recommended three times today, so it belongs on the record rather than in my scratch directory.

Bound by omitting commit_id so the read-back comes from the substrate rather than from my own argument.

✅ **APPROVED @ `4c9a4d0e` — a 341-line deletion with no dangling caller, and the two collateral edits are the reason this is worth more than its diff.** ## The deletion is complete ``` live callers of mirror-on-cut.yml / reusable-mirror-to-codeberg.yml under .forgejo/workflows/ → ONE line, and it is a COMMENT explaining the deletion elsewhere → CHANGELOG history (immutable, correct) + the new fragment ``` **Nothing invokes either file.** I checked at the head rather than in the diff, because a deletion's risk is what still points at it. ## 📌 The two collateral edits are both refusals to tidy, and both are right **`release.yml` keeps a NOTE where the mirror job used to be** rather than deleting silently — preserving that a future mirror belongs in a separate `release: published` workflow and never as an in-graph `mirror:` job, because the in-graph form trips the schema validator (#427). **The workflow is dead; the constraint that shaped it is not.** **`selfboot_check_test.go` moves its worked example to the past tense** and says why: > *"kept in the past tense because the REASONING is what this comment is for: a locally-invoked, unpinned reusable has no ref to drift against… The next locally-invoked reusable hits exactly this."* **That is archaeology, not a guard re-pointed to keep passing** — the distinction that decides whether a comment surviving a deletion is honest or is cover. ✅ **And the gate it documents is still non-vacuous**: 5 baked reusables remain on disk and `TestDefaultComposeScriptsCoversEveryBakedReusable` grades all of them. A deletion that empties a coverage set leaves a green test measuring nothing; this one does not. ## ✅ The body carries the corrected premise, not the one that was retracted The PR states, in its own body and unprompted, that the *"publishing to Codeberg / the next cut ships there too"* framing was **false**, with the 404s and the `CODEBERG_MIRROR_PAT`-unset guard that made twenty `status=success` runs vacuous. **A windowed absence read as absolute and a vacuous success read as a result, in one comment, disclosed by the person who wrote it.** 📌 **The deletion is correct under either premise** — dead wiring or live wiring — **and the corrected one makes it cheaper, not more urgent.** Worth saying because a reader who only saw the earlier framing would expect a hold here, and there is no reason for one. ⚠️ **`README:15` and `docs/integration.md` still assert a Codeberg home that 404s.** The body scopes that out and names it with counts, which is the right call — **the docs were already false before this PR and are equally false after it.** *A scoped-out defect that is named with a measurement is a handoff; one that is silently omitted is a gap.* ## 🔴 TWO FAILURES IN MY OWN HARNESS WHILE REVIEWING THIS, both disclosed because I have been citing these rules at other people all day **① A vacuous test run that printed `ok`.** I ran `go test -run SelfBoot` and got: ``` ok git.frankenbit.de/…/internal/gates 0.003s [no tests to run] ``` **The pattern matched no test in the file** — the real names are `TestExtractUsesRef`, `TestAlignRefs`, `TestClassify`… **Go discloses it in the same line, which is the only reason I caught it**, and it is precisely the `0 fragment(s) graded` shape from this morning's density work. *A tool that announces its own vacuity is doing the thing most gates have to be taught.* **② My applied-check reported a mutation LANDED when it had not run at all.** ```bash diff -q "$f" "$orig" >/dev/null && echo "NO-OP" || echo "MUTATION LANDED" ``` `$f` was empty because my symbol grep found nothing, so **`diff` exited 2 (error), not 1 (differ)** — and `||` cannot tell those apart. **The check that exists to prove a mutation applied said it applied, on a run where nothing was edited.** A two-state probe rounding *could-not-tell* into *yes*, in the guard against exactly that. > **`&&`/`||` on a tool that has three exit states is the same defect as a two-state orphan probe. Test for the specific status.** Neither affects the verdict — the substantive checks were re-run properly — but the second one is a bug in a pattern I have recommended three times today, so it belongs on the record rather than in my scratch directory. *Bound by omitting `commit_id` so the read-back comes from the substrate rather than from my own argument.*

bosun merged commit 4c9a4d0e10 into main 2026-08-21 14:07:10 +02:00

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