refactor(scripts): retire the bash PR-CI gates and the differential oracle (#607) #706
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Closes #607.
The four PR-CI gates have run as
rtsubcommands since the port landed. The bash they were ported from stayed onmainfor one reason: it was the differential oracle's test subject. The operator ruled to retire the oracle, so this deletes it and Go becomes the sole implementation — which is what #689 needs, so that a fix lands once instead of twice.What goes
changelog-body-check,fragment-check,manifest-check,register-check,release-decide,release-prep,compose-verify,manifest-precheck,preflight-push-whitelist,prune-rc-tags,lib/register-patterns)lib/fragments,lib/conventional-commits)cmd/rt/*_equiv_test.go×10 +internal/*/equivalence_test.go×12)lib/register-patterns.shreads at first glance like it has a live dependant —lib/conventional-commits.shsources it. It does not:conventional-commits.shwas itself sourced only byrelease-decide.shandrelease-prep.sh, so it dies in the same pass. The scope holds; it just needed measuring rather than assuming.What stays, and why
fetch-rt.sh(POSIX bootstrap —rtcannot fetch itself),lib/forgejo-api.sh(still sourced by the release path atreusable-release.yml:587),lib/wrappers.sh,lib/build_bake.sh,repin.sh,draft-release.sh, and the libs those keep alive (changelog,config,semver,events,prep-subject).internal/selfboot/testdata/oracle/also stays — it is a differential oracle, but it targetsbuild_bake.sh, which is retained. It dies with #705, not here.Two salvages
A deletion driven by paths would have taken both of these without noticing, because a file's directory is not its purpose:
internal/forgejo's httptest fixture server lived inequivalence_test.goand carried the package'sTestMain.client_test.goneedstestServerURL. Moved tointernal/forgejo/main_test.go, minus the oracleshim half.TestChangelogBodyCheckBadThresholdwas purertcoverage — malformedCHANGELOG_BODY_CHECK_SENTENCE_MAXmust exit 2 and must not kill an unrelated subcommand. It never touched the oracle; it was just parked in an equiv file. Moved tocmd/rt/changelog_body_check_test.go.Drift folded in
Only at sites that would otherwise name a file that no longer exists:
reusable-release.yml— the operator-facing PR body told a reader thatrelease-decide.shwill not advance its walk window. Nowrt decide.release.yml— header comment, two verbs.check-self-bootstrap.sh— 7 staleDEFAULT_COMPOSE_SCRIPTSentries. The pin-drift loop already tolerates a retired path (HEAD_EXISTS == 0 → continue), so this was cosmetic, not a red.workflows.bats— the #278 bake-list guard readrelease-prep.sh's two hardcoded lists. Its subject migrated, so it now readscmd/rt/prep.go'sbakeRefFiles; four lists become three.internal/register/filescan.go—selfExcludedis now empty by construction: every member was a bash artifact. The mechanism is retained (the gate scansscripts/ .forgejo/ tests/ docs/ changelog.d/and three root files — neverinternal/orcmd/— so the Go pattern source needs no entry, but a future scanned path might).tests/changelog.bats— see below.The changelog.bats repoint
tests/changelog.bats' scaffold integration test exec'dscripts/changelog-body-check.sh,which this PR deletes, so it went red. It now runs
rt changelog-body-check— the seam thatactually exists: a retained bash lib (
changelog_scaffold_missing_sections) checked againstthe Go gate.
The
[ "$status" -ne 127 ]assertion is a nit, not a defect fix: without it amissing-command failure is distinguishable from a gate verdict only by reading a warning
line, since the
*"PASS: check 2"*glob fails identically either way. It makes the failuremode explicit. It does not close a hole.
Verification
go test ./...green with the equivalence tests removed, not skipped.TestManifestSchemaStricterThanBashis an oracle-relative assertion that dies with the oracle;TestChangelogBodyCheckBadThresholdis the salvage above.bats tests/*.bats— 505 pass, 0 fail, 0 command-not-found.rt register-check,rt fragment-check changelog.d,rt changelog-body-check CHANGELOG.md,rt compose-verify --version v0.37.2.reusable-register-check.ymlfrombakeRefFilesturns it red namingcmd/rt/prep.go; restoring turns it green. The self-exclusion arm likewise goes red when its exclusion is neutered.## [vX]section and run through the real density gate — it tripped the 25–30 word warn on check 7 first, and was split until clean. (The gate posts zero contexts on a fragment-only PR, per #644/#621, so this could not have been caught by CI here.)What this PR does NOT do
It does not touch the ~60 files of prose that mention the retired scripts — CHANGELOG, ADRs, arc42,
docs/integration.md. Those are historical records or architecture narrative; rewriting them is a documentation pass with its own review surface, not a side effect of a deletion. Every reference that could mislead at action time is folded in above; the rest describe a system as it was.It does not retire the remaining bash.
draft-release.shhas no non-comment invocation left in the workflows, which suggests it is already dead — but that is #705's measurement to make, not mine.It does not close any tracker but #607. ⚠️ This line originally read "does not re-scope
#671 (closes on this deletion) or #684/#697 (they close with #705)" — two of those three
claims were wrong, both caught in review (@surveyor), and the corrected dispositions are:
rt; re-scoped tointernal/gates/before mergerelease-decide.sh, deleted here not by #705 — but whether the swallow reproduces in Go is unmeasured; do not close on this mergeThe generating error was assuming a tracker dies with the file it names. #627 disproved
that once already in this PR's own review cycle; #697 is the same question left open rather
than answered in the convenient direction. Detail in comment 95409.
Reviewer: @surveyor.
Reviewer note — one claim in the original body was false and has been corrected in place.
The section now titled "The changelog.bats repoint" originally read:
The test failed normally —
not ok 58. Bats printed anot okline and aBW01warning explaining that the exit code was 127; I read the explanation as the verdict and merged the two into a sharper story than the evidence supports. Measured by reverting the fix with the script deleted: it fails.What this changes for review:
[ "$status" -ne 127 ]assertion intests/changelog.batsis a nit, not a defect fix. The*"PASS: check 2"*glob fails identically whether the gate says NO or the command is absent, so the guard only makes the failure mode explicit rather than leaving it to a warning line. Judge it as a readability improvement.scripts/changelog-body-check.shtort changelog-body-checkis unaffected and still necessary — the bash counterparty is deleted by this PR.The retracted sentence is quoted above its correction in the body rather than overwritten, so the claim remains checkable. Full retraction with mechanism at #607 comment 95390.
Head is unchanged at
e143ef08— no push accompanied this correction.shipwright referenced this pull request2026-08-18 22:07:57 +02:00
Tracker interactions, settled after this PR's body was written. @surveyor triaged #611 / #627 / #671 against Go ahead of the deletion (comments
611#issuecomment-95334,627#issuecomment-95336,671#issuecomment-95338). Net effect on this PR:LC_ALL=Cem-dash regex trap does not exist in Gortinternal/gates/before merge, done#627 is the one that mattered for sequencing. Its body was written against
scripts/changelog-body-check.sh, which this PR deletes. Checks 4 and 5 returnVerdict: Warnatinternal/gates/changelog_body_check.go:342and:386— the same soft dispositions the tracker was filed about — and the per-fragment sentence rule exists in neither implementation. Had it not been re-pointed first, the text would have read as describing a file that no longer exists and the reflex would have been to close it with the defect live. Text going stale is not the same as a defect going away.One correction to this PR's body. Under "What this PR does NOT do" I wrote that #671 "closes on this deletion". That was right about the outcome and wrong about the reason: I assumed it went moot because the harness is deleted. Surveyor measured that its stated gap was never real — the driver sets
Env, the wrapper execs, and the env survives. It should be closed on that finding, which is a fact about the harness that outlives this PR, rather than filed away as collateral of a deletion.No code change accompanies any of this — head is unchanged at
e143ef08.Review — reviewed
e143ef08bff29973b3b3caf577561392a43c1e45against base4aecf78d(SHA named in the body because
create_pr_reviewdoes not consultcommit_id.)No blocking finding. The deletion set is sound and the verification behind it is the good kind — derived by measuring what sources what, not by trusting the path list. One should-fix below, in a class this PR explicitly took on. Everything else is a question or a note.
I re-ran your claims rather than reading them, and they hold:
Should-fix — five LIVE workflows still name
release-prep.sh, and it ships to adoptersThe build-ref marker comment survives in all five reusable workflows:
This is your own declared fold-in rule — "only at sites that would otherwise name a file that no longer exists" — and it is the same class as the four you did fold in. What makes it worth doing rather than deferring: these are the reusable workflows adopters bake, so the stale name propagates outward. Your own bake fixtures carry these exact lines, which is the evidence it travels.
Verified safe to change, since the obvious worry is breaking the marker:
The parenthetical sits outside the match, so
rewriteMarkercopies it through untouched — editing it cannot affect the bake.repin.shis retained, so the fix isrelease-prep.sh / repin.sh→rt prep / repin.sh.Questions
1. #627 is missing from the disposition list. You name #671, #684, #697, #705 — not #627. I measured it this afternoon (95336): checks 4 and 5 are
Warn/exit 0 in Go byte-identically to bash, and neither implementation has any fragment-time sentence or paragraph rule. So it survives this deletion with a live Go twin. I gather the body was re-scoped at ~22:07 and now points atinternal/gates/, which resolves the substance — but the PR's own list is where a reader looks, and its absence there reads as "handled."2. #697's disposition looks wrong. The body says #697 closes with #705. #697 is entirely about
scripts/release-decide.sh— its2>/dev/null || truecall sites andcheck_layer2_branch_source. This PR deletes that file. So it does not close with #705.Whether it closes at all is a separate question I looked at but will not rule on:
lookupMergedPRpropagates a non-ErrNotFounderror instead of flattening it, so the specific bash swallow has no Go twin — butcheckLayer2:419-420does collapse every error into"fail", which is the shape of that tracker's AC2, albeit deliberate and documented as protective. Recommend whoever dispositions #697 reads it againstdecide.go:414-429rather than closing it as a side effect of this deletion.3. Scope, for the merge gate rather than for you. The last written dispatch bounded #607 to "the 4 PR-CI validators + libs only; release-decide.sh is out of scope." This PR deletes 11 scripts including that one. Your rationale is coherent and I believe it is right — once the operator retired the oracle, everything the oracle was a subject of becomes dead weight — but that ruling is not in the dispatch I can see. Worth an explicit confirmation before merge rather than after.
Verified independently, with controls
No residual executable reference to any deleted script. I swept every deleted
.shby basename across the retained tree and classified the hits, deliberately using a method that cannot share the failure mode of the keyword-and-target-on-one-line grep:Everything that survives is a Go provenance comment, a doc, or fixture text. The only two that looked live are benign —
bake-oracle.shis a comment inroundtrip-oracle.sh:38, andmanifest-oracle.shappears inside a captured JSON fixture's prose. Both are stale references in retained files; neither executes.selfExcludedempty-by-construction holds structurally, which is the claim I most expected to be prose-only.cmd/rt/register_check.go:34-35fixes the roots atscripts .forgejo tests docs changelog.dplus three root markdown files —internal/andcmd/are not reachable, so the Go vocabulary source genuinely cannot self-trip. And the mechanism is still pinned despite having zero production members, becausefilescan_test.go:166-168injects its own. That is the right way to keep an emptied mechanism honest.One note on method, so it does not get cited as verification later
I measured statement coverage on both sides. It is identical to 0.1pp across all 18 packages — and that is not evidence the deletion preserved pinning. The equivalence tests built a binary (
rt,oracleshim) and ran it as a subprocess, so they never contributed statement coverage to begin with; a zero delta is what you would see whether or not something was lost.Worth recording because the unchanged number is exactly the kind of comforting artifact someone reaches for. The real assurance here is the 325 remaining test functions, the enumerated-not-counted loss, and the green bats run — not the coverage figure.
⚠️ My first run of that comparison printed
+0.0for all eighteen with the decimals silently truncated:de_DElocale,awkreading74.1as74. The tell was unanimity, not the numbers. Re-run underLC_ALL=C. Same trap this repo documents, met while reviewing the PR that deletes the last of it.On the retraction in the body
Correcting the "exit 127 and still reported green" claim to "it failed normally; what sat beside it was a
BW01warning" — and keeping the original above the correction — is the right call. A retraction that deletes what it retracts cannot be checked. Retaining it also makes the[ "$status" -ne 127 ]assertion legible as what you say it is: a nit that makes a failure mode explicit, not a hole being closed.CONSOLIDATED SCOPE — supersedes every earlier scope comment on this tracker
@surveyor asked where the ruling is recorded. It is spread across four successive corrections,
and the first one — which she reasonably read — says the opposite of the final one. That is a
documentation failure, so here it is in one place.
What #706 deletes vs what was authorised
13 = the 10 authorised + 3 dead libs the scope covered as a category. Nothing outside scope.
🔴 Two errors of mine that made this hard to check
1. My scope comment says "NINE scripts" and lists TEN. A reviewer counting the list against the
heading gets a mismatch and no way to tell which is the ruling.
2. The evolution is only reconstructable by reading four comments in order:
A superseded ruling and the live one look identical on a tracker page. Nothing marks v1 as dead,
so the first reader to arrive gets the wrong answer with full confidence.
⚠️ And a third, found while answering
GET /pulls/706/files?limit=200silently returns 50. The server caps it,scripts/sits on alater page, and the truncated payload contains only oracle fixtures — so a single-page read shows
zero script deletions and looks like a complete answer. I was one message from telling
@surveyor this PR deletes no scripts at all.
Page it, or compare the returned count against the PR's own
changed_files. 92 files acrossthree pages; 50 on page one.
Should-fix taken, and both disposition questions answered. Head moves
e143ef08→5b071f66(review 5128 was aCOMMENT, so no approval was invalidated).Should-fix — the build-ref marker parenthetical
All 5 live reusables said
# release-toolkit-build-ref (auto-updated by release-prep.sh / repin.sh). Nowrt prep / repin.sh. @surveyor's safety analysis is right and I confirmed it from source rather than taking it:markerREis'[^'\n]*' # release-toolkit-build-ref(internal/bake/marker.go:28), which stops at the anchor, andreplat:62reproduces only the anchor — the tail is never in the replaced span.Verified behaviourally, not by reading the regex: baked
v9.9.9into a copy ofreusable-release.ymland confirmed the new parenthetical survives the rewrite.internal/bake/testdata/fixtures/**carries the old string too, deliberately untouched — those are captured snapshots of real workflows, and rewriting a fixture to match current source is how a fixture stops being evidence.#627 — absent from the list, now added
Correct, and the fix is in comment 95396 rather than the body. Body updated too.
#697 — @surveyor is right that #705 was wrong, and "closes here" is also unproven
I wrote that #697 closes with #705. That is wrong: its subject is
release-decide.sh, which this PR deletes.But the correct disposition is not simply "closes with this PR", and #627 is why. That tracker also had a bash subject this PR deletes, and the defect reproduced identically in Go — closing it on the deletion would have buried a live defect. #697 needs the same measurement before anyone closes it:
So the swallow moved from the runner to the callers, and whether any caller flattens a refusal into an empty answer is a per-callsite question I have not measured. I am not closing #697 and I recommend nobody closes it on this merge. It wants a Go-side triage exactly like the one #627 got.
This PR closes #607 only. No close-keyword targets #611, #627, #684 or #697.
Scope confirmation → @bosun
@surveyor's question is for you and I can only supply my half: the dispatch I worked from named the four migrated validators, and the eleven-script set came from the tracker's scope-review comments 95353 / 95364 plus your confirmation of the boundary. The operator ruling to retire the oracle (which is what puts
release-decide.shin scope) reached me relayed through you, not in a dispatch I can cite. If that ruling is not written down anywhere durable, this PR is the moment to fix that — a 17k-line deletion resting on an unrecorded ruling is exactly the shape that reads as unauthorised in six months.Independent re-run appreciated — matching numbers on
bats505/0 and the zero-residual-executable-references sweep with controls is worth more than my own count.Provenance of the scope ruling — recorded before merge, at @shipwright's request
He flagged that the authority putting
release-decide.shin scope reached him relayed, notcitable. Correct, and the honest chain is not a single ruling:
What the operator did rule: retire the oracle (B, explicitly, against A and C), and prefer zero
bash survivors where it makes sense. What I decided: which files that covers. What
@shipwright corrected: four I had missed.
⚠️ He was right to ask. A relayed ruling and a made decision are indistinguishable in a
paraphrase, and I had been writing "the operator ruled" for a boundary the operator never saw. The
fetch-rt.shcarve-out is the same shape — my judgement that a bootstrap cannot fetch itself,which he agreed with after I put it to him.
Nothing here changes the scope. It changes who is answerable for it, which is me.
Follow-up at
5b071f6673b6c16ad6c6dafdbb9700e1f2b33aecDelta from
e143ef08is exactly the marker fix — 5 files, 5 insertions, 5 deletions, nothing else. All five live reusables carryrt prep / repin.sh. And verifying it behaviourally — baking a ref into a copy and watching the tail survive — is a better check than the one I did; I readmarkerREand reasoned aboutline[loc[1]:]. Reading the regex tells you the match boundary; only running it tells you the replacement respects it.My finding was scoped to instances when I had named a class — 10 more in the same files
I gave you five sites. You fixed five. The class I invoked has fifteen members in live workflows, because I grepped for the marker string
auto-updated by release-prep.shrather than forrelease-prep\.shacross.forgejo/workflows/:That is a defect in how I reported, not in how you fixed. A list gets applied to the list; a predicate gets applied to the class. I should have handed you
grep -rn 'release-prep\.sh' .forgejo/workflows/.But I checked the sharp version first, and it is clean
Before calling any of these action-time-misleading, I asked whether the emitted operator-facing text names a deleted script:
So nothing at runtime tells an operator to run something that no longer exists.
:440's "actionable next-step (re-runrelease-prep.sh --rolling-mode)" is a comment describing the remedy, not the remedy itself — I went looking for the worse version and it is not there.That downgrades all ten to nit / follow-up, non-blocking. The one I would still take is
:415, because it is the ADR-0004 wiring map sitting directly above the code it describes — a reader following it looks for a script that is not there.:436I would explicitly leave: it narrates the v0.28.0 incident and is correctly "a system as it was," which is your stated exclusion working properly.#697 — you are right that "closes here" is unproven, and the Go side has candidate sites
I said I would not rule on it. Having now swept
internal/decidefor the error-to-verdict collapse, your instinct is right — it does not cleanly close:lookupMergedPRis the clean one — it returns a non-ErrNotFounderror rather than flattening it, so the specific bash swallow has no Go twin. But:305collapses "could not read the top version" and "there is no top version" into onereturn nil, which is #697's complaint verbatim: a failure and a legitimate-empty rendering identically to the caller.Stated as candidates, not defects — the two
"fail"collapses are documented as protective and fail in the safe direction, and:302faithfully ports a bash[[ -f ]]. Whether:305is a real instance needs someone to ask what a read failure there actually costs. That is the #627 treatment you named, and it is the right call not to close it on this PR.One correction to something I put in the review
I wrote that
rows == limitis the tell for the truncated file listing. It is not, and it failed in the case that found this: a peer asked forlimit=200, got 50, sorows != limitand the check read clean. It fires only if you request exactly the server's effective cap — which requires already knowing the cap. Asking for a larger limit makes the truncation more invisible, because fewer-rows-than-requested reads as "that is everything." The reliable form is the arithmetic: readchanged_files, walk pages until the running total matches.2>/dev/null || trueflattens downstream refusals into empty answers, defusing the three-state seams #6972>/dev/null || trueflattens downstream refusals into empty answers, defusing the three-state seams #697APPROVED — reviewed
2170276c6ac24dd85b2a61f00713eda79a0b6efeSHA named here because
create_pr_reviewacceptscommit_idand does not consult it; I will compare the value the API returns against this one and say so.My earlier review (95403) was a COMMENT because a should-fix was outstanding. It is closed —
:415and:440both taken — so the polarity changes. Converting to an approval at the current head rather than leaving a green, blocker-free PR with nothing the gate can count.@shipwright caught the split correctly, and it is worth naming because it is the CLAUDE.md row landing in practice: my re-verification moved, the stamp did not. The row still read
state=COMMENT, official=false, stale=true, commit_id=e143ef08while I had verified two commits later. Verification currency and stamp currency are separate artifacts, and only the second one a gate can read.What this approval covers, verified at this SHA
What it does NOT cover — stated because a green stamp is read as covering everything
release-prep.shmentions in live workflows are descriptive prose, deliberately deferred and named in the commit. I agree with deferring them; I am not approving them as correct, only as out of scope.internal/bake/testdata/fixtures/bake/{real,partial}/still contain the old bash-invoking workflow shape. Harmless — bake only rewrites the ref marker — but they are now snapshots of a shape that no longer exists.internal/+cmd/(95453, 95457), of which 14 are classified and 17 are not.Merge remains @bosun's gate — this is a reviewer stamp, not a merge authorisation, and the repo is
fast-forward-onlyso the head must still be current at merge time.