The operator, 2026-10-23: "disable the gitea branch protection reset thing". The 10-minute tick and the start-time
ensureMainMerges, and the repositories sync's changes to existing repositories' main rules, now run only when the new
setting is true; new repositories are still made. The sync says in its outcome that rules were left.
The operator merges by hand at the forge when the mesh's own path is stuck,
without changing a rule. The logins come from the trusted config value
main-mergers, merged into the runtime config both programs read.
The forge's required status was a second copy of the gate mesh-delivery and
the merge tool already keep; a stuck status writer held it too (issues 1886,
1891) and only a hand change at the forge let a fix merge. Main keeps no push,
the tools' merge whitelist and no administrator override. The merge tool
judges mesh/check whether or not the branch requires it, and on a branch that
requires none merges only a head the operator's Approve names. The protection
tool loses its status argument.
ADR 0447 §1 has main require mesh/check alone. The repositories program now
requires it in place of mesh/merge-gate and mesh/repo-check on every listed
repository and on every other one whose main requires mesh/merge-gate, so the
switch needs no hand-kept list (lead decisions L4, L11). A main requiring
mesh/repo-check alone (hq) keeps it until issue 1296 (ADR 0503 §5).
jschoubben