With check-gates-merge false a head is ready and asked before any verdict exists, yet the ask said "<pr> passed its
checks" (a group: "passed its checks"): on 2026-10-26 the operator approved mesh-delivery #79 and a six-repository group
on that claim while their checks had not answered.
The ask now reads the checker's verdict at exactly the heads it covers (checkAt, beside checkerAt): "passed its check"
only for a pass there; otherwise "its check has no verdict yet[: it is running (since HH:MM UTC)]" or "its check failed:
<first failure>", and the Approve clause says it merges "now, before its check ends" or "although its check failed".
While the check gates no merge, a pending ask whose check then passes or fails (or loses a pass it named) is withdrawn
and asked again in new words (the ask's AskCheck against the state now, endStaleAsks, the review-record path's
withdrawAsk); a check that starts running is no new word, so the wait stays one message. Whether a merge waits is
unchanged. The gate's log lines and stalled lines that claimed a pass for a ready head say the same state.
Quick fix: replace "passed its checks" by neutral words in the two summaries. Thorough fix: one reader of the check's
state at the ask's heads (checkAt) used by every text that names it, and the ask re-said when that state changes.
Chosen: thorough, as it costs one helper and one case in endStaleAsks, and the quick one would still leave a pending
ask silent about a failure that came after it.
Tests: rows in TestAnApprovedPullRequestIsMergedThroughTheMergeTool (gated pass; ungated no verdict, running, then
passed, then failed) and the ungated group's wording; no new test function.
go list leaves a file its build tags exclude (an integration test) in IgnoredGoFiles, which the digest did not hash;
mesh-provisioner-client's unit test globs *_test.go and reads two of them, so a change there reused a stale unit pass.
Review finding F2 on ba49a7f0.
47 packages carried the marker and were never kept: about 2000 tests per level ran on every check, whatever it
changed. The marker now lists, as paths or globs from the repository's root (? before a path whose absence is read),
what the package's tests read outside it; the digest hashes those files with the package's own non-Go files. A marker
that lists nothing, names an unclean path, or a line that matches nothing keeps today's never-kept digest.
The 46 markers list their reads; checks/deps and checks/trunk lose theirs (their tests read only temporary
directories). Digest form 6.
Quick fix of issue 1936, chosen by the operator 2026-10-26 21:56; the thorough fix (the Go test log's files kept with
each verdict) stays on the issue.
photos' admin-client, client and server Dockerfiles live in subdirectories and copy
paths from the module's root (admin-client/..., client-server/serve.mjs), as build-agent
built them and as the fingerprint reads the module's whole directory. Taking the
Dockerfile's own directory as context failed every such COPY with copier: stat
"/admin-client/package.json": no such file or directory, on shanks and on ace.
Quick fix (rejected): move photos' Dockerfiles to its repository root; it changes the
operator's photo application and leaves the trap for the next module.
Thorough fix (chosen): one context for every image, the module's directory; it never
leaves that directory, so the isolation of ADR 0487 section 2 holds.
mesh/delivery-group group fix/capacity-follows-cpu-share rejected: composed together: the checker's verdict at the members' heads (63694fe9222d): unit: ..test
mesh/check checking 3f8b0b42480b on 7c5c29421f02 | novox/mesh-catalog#511 in group fix/capacity-follows-cpu-share
mesh-build-go, -node and -image declare build-hours (node=HH:MM-HH:MM in the node's local time,
empty = any hour) and hand it to the SDK puller (the operator, 2026-10-26: g14 builds only from
18:00 to 06:00); their SDK pin moves to mesh-sdk d00dac1, which has it.
Each of mesh-build-go, -node and -image declares cores-per-step (6, 2, 2) and hands it to the
SDK puller, which bounds the configured capacity by floor(slice quota cores / cores-per-step),
read live; thread limits and the status tools follow the effective capacity (issue 1806's
follow-up: three Go checks on shanks' 12-core slice starved past the 30-minute step bound).
mesh-build-go says its lint and test phases with the ask id (issue 1890).
mesh/check checking 851e8782d569 on da29f77b1081 | novox/mesh-catalog#505 in group feat/1126-nodes-compose
One commit for the branch feat/1126-nodes-compose of mesh-catalog: its 15 commits squashed so its history does not carry two compiled programs committed by mistake and removed later, mesh-config (5.5 MB) and checks/placement (6.2 MB) (issue 1577). The tree equals the former head 2db56067. The operator allowed this rewrite of the feature branch on 2026-10-26.
mesh-build-node kept the first fifteen lines of node --test's output, so a passing line of the first file stood for the
failure. Both build modules now parse through the SDK (go test -json, node --test's TAP report written to a file, the
type-check and go vet as console failures), name themselves in the result, and run the SDK's captured cases; the
catalogue check failurekit refuses a node-build-* module with a test step whose tests do not run the kit.
mesh/check being carried to 854dbfb3f3f0 on 7c5c29421f02 | from 3690c149c4ad
The seed linked 188 issues at once and every one read as moved at the seed's minute, hiding when each
really moved; on a worked issue the link also counted as its worker's activity. These links only place
an issue, so last-moved and the worker's activity leave them out.
mesh/check checking 76e4ec4dc680 on 26908a89506f | novox/mesh-catalog#506 in group feat/1781-milestone-records
mesh-issues keeps each design's milestone in the state milestones (history 5), says milestone-set and
milestone-moved, and serves milestones, milestone-set and milestone-move. An issue's milestone is its own link
of kind milestone, so at most one milestone per issue is checked inside the issue's own write; kind commit
links a fixing commit. The triage links no milestone, pull request or commit. import with milestones=N seeds
a design's table once. mesh-knowledge's progress reads issue-tracker.milestones and its table parse is gone.
Squashed from four commits so the branch history does not carry a compiled bundle that was committed by
mistake (6 MB); the path is now in .gitignore.
mesh/check pass 87fe2c45cfed on 26908a89506f | carried from 27a7757b970e, hq 3a5c4c7c4d9c | unit 2091 run, 2327 kept, 6 skipped | integration 2112 run…
A resolved issue whose delivery is held or failed is stuck, one merged and not delivered
is moving; a row the tracker did not answer, an answer that does not read and linked
issues cut by the list's limit are said as warnings instead of passing silently.
mesh/check pass 24b244bc88dc on 27a7757b970e | carried from 6b6d5cba7195 | unit 2046 run, 2327 kept, 6 skipped | integration 2066 run, 2346 kept, 10 s…
car-hunter #2 was approved and its commit status then refused 403. Before the ask the
gate reads merge.writes for each repository it covers; where the merging account cannot
write, nothing is asked, the delivery waits on 'the forge account cannot write <repo>:
gitea_grant_write' and a condition is raised. gitea.repo.writable reads it again and
asks an approved, refused merge of it again.
A lead's five-minute report and 'is design 47 nearing its end' were joined by hand from
the design file, the tracker and the deliveries. One verb now works the state out
(ADR 0424 §1), minimal for every five minutes, detailed for the report's tree.
Milestones are read from the design's table until the tracker's milestone records
(issue 1781) are delivered.
car-hunter #2 was approved and its commit status refused 403: mesh-tools only read the
repositories of a user. It is now a write collaborator on each repository the indexer's
modules state names (watched over the bus: at the start and on each registration), read
back and said as gitea.repo.writable; the operator's other repositories stay read-only.
gitea_grant_write and gitea_unwritable_repos do and show it by hand; gitea_commit_statuses
answers merge.writes.
The knowledge base's progress verb reads a milestone's issues in one call and must say
when each last moved, and the issues linked to a record or a design; neither was
readable without one get per issue.
jschoubben
mesh-tools