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mesh-tools 6be8f6eada Feature 57 (config and provisioning): the record of its designs, playbooks and glossary words, synced with main
mesh/merge-gate head 6be8f6eada67 merged into trunk b7e22be7f55f — pass: [release feat/57-config-and-provisioning, judged by its controller cf897e89fe31] t…
mesh/repo-check head 6be8f6eada67 merged into trunk b7e22be7f55f — pass: [release feat/57-config-and-provisioning, judged by its controller cf897e89fe31] i…
mesh/delivery delivered
2026-10-16 07:22:11 +00:00
jochen daa9f171ae Issue reports carry only opened: the tracker holds every status, so no copy can drift
mesh/merge-gate pass: the change touches no module of the mesh's graph
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery delivered
The import of slice 3 (ADR 0275) was checked against every folder: no report changed since the
commit it read, and the tracker holds each report's status, owner, fix, design amendment, replay
and closing day. The keys are removed from all 361 reports, cycle.py refuses them in any report,
and the playbooks, skills and READMEs that still pointed at them name the tracker instead.
2026-10-10 17:44:18 +02:00
jschoubben 36d9b38a0d An issue is open, diagnosing, located, resolved or wontfix — nothing else
The playbook, the README and the status skill knew five statuses; the cycle check
knew a sixth, 'fixed', and not 'wontfix'. Eleven issues sat in the sixth for weeks
with their fixes shipped, one step short of closed. They are resolved; the check
refuses the word from now on and accepts the one the playbook allows.
2026-09-21 17:38:17 +02:00
jschoubben 80f18caf03 022 fixed; 023 filed — a password is not a connection
022 turned out to have a silent half worth recording: the provider
refuses loudly and names the modules, which reads as a decision, while
the consuming node does not refuse at all. Three modules wanting one
database produce one need, so two of them get no credential file and
each starts and fails to authenticate with nothing saying why.

023 is what remained after fixing it. A consumer now gets its own
password, in whatever shape its configuration wants, and still cannot
connect: the user name is invented by the provisioner and recorded
nowhere in the mesh, and the host and port sit in a JSON binding that an
application reading KEY=value cannot use.

The asymmetry is backwards and the coverage document now says so. The
secret is the hard case, because the mesh must not be able to read it,
and the secret is the part that arrives. The host and port are ordinary
facts the mesh holds in the clear, and they are the ones stuck.

Keycloak, Gitea, Mailu and MinIO all parse and resolve and none of them
can start. This is what stands between the module set and a running one.
2026-09-01 02:40:40 +02:00
jschoubben c86adbe3cc 022 — a credential belongs to a node, so a second consumer refuses
Found while checking whether the module vocabulary covers real use
cases. A node running three modules that all want a database cannot be
planned at all:

  anchor has 3 modules asking for "postgres-database" and they would
  share one credential: gitea, keycloak, umami

The refusal is right about what it says and wrong about what it implies.
They would share one credential, and sharing is worse than refusing —
but the arrangement being refused is the ordinary one, and the node this
mesh exists to take over runs eight modules against one database server.

The cause is the key: a credential is keyed by provision, consumer node
and provider node, so `consumer` is a machine. The provisioner inherits
it and names the role `mesh_<node>`. The refusal is not a check that
caught something; it is the only honest thing that function can do with
a key that cannot tell two consumers apart.

It is the same mistake as 021 with a different face. There the machine
was treated as a trust boundary; here it is treated as an identity, as
though "who is asking" is answered by naming a host. Two modules on one
node are as separate as two on different nodes.

Worth stating plainly: without the refusal, gitea's login would have
opened keycloak's database, and nothing would have said so — from the
provisioner's side it created exactly what it was asked to create.

Not a local fix. It crosses the control plane, the grant file naming and
every provisioner that names something after a consumer.
2026-09-01 02:28:39 +02:00