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mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds gitea → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript)
Announce a pull request opened after its push, and say one nobody checks (hq issue 347)
The announcer read only the repositories whose update time moved since its
last pass, less a minute. Opening, reopening or retargeting a pull request
does not move a repository's update time, so a pull request opened more
than a minute after its push was never announced, never checked, and
nothing said so (mesh-sdk #14, 2026-10-09).

- Each pass also looks at every repository holding a pull request updated
  since the floor, by the forge's own search; every ten minutes, or when the
  search fails, at every repository.
- Every five minutes the forge is asked for every open pull request; one on
  a base requiring mesh/merge-gate whose head has had none for ten minutes
  is said as the forge failing that pull request's merge check (a provider
  standing, ADR 0224), which the controller keeps as a condition, and is
  recovered when a check arrives or it closes.
- The client refuses a pull request or issue number that is not one before
  asking the forge (a misnamed tool argument sent pulls/NaN).
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# gitea
The forge, and the mesh's npm package registry: it claims the `git` and `npm-package-registry` seats.
Its tools, its events and the provisioner of registry accounts are the TypeScript bundle (`index.ts`,
`tools/`, `provisioner/`). This README covers the Go bundle beside it.
## Announcing pull requests to the merge check (novox/hq to-be 45 §9, issue 347)
Every new head of an open pull request is announced as `pull.updated`, once, and the controller has it checked.
- **Which repositories a pass looks at.** Each that moved since the last pass, less a minute's margin (issue 250);
each holding a pull request updated since then, found by the forge's own search — opening, reopening or
retargeting a pull request moves its own update time and not its repository's, and a pull request opened more
than a minute after its push was never announced (issue 347); and every repository on a sweep, every ten
minutes, or when the search fails.
- **A pull request nobody checks is said.** Every five minutes the forge itself is asked for every open pull
request; one whose base requires `mesh/merge-gate` and whose head has had no such status for ten minutes is
said as this forge failing *the merge check of `<owner>/<repo>#<n>`* (`provisioner.failing`, class
`unannounced`), which the controller keeps as a condition (ADR 0224), said again each pass while it lasts, and
recovered when a check arrives or the pull request closes. What is said is kept in `pulls-unannounced.json`
beside the announcer's record, so a restart recovers what it said.
- **A pull request or issue number that is not one is refused** before the forge is asked: a tool called with a
misnamed argument sent `pulls/NaN`.
## The package registry's retention (novox/hq ADR 0251 §4, to-be 51)
Every publish adds a version to the registry, and until this nothing removed one. The Go bundle
`cmd/npm-registry` says which versions each package holds, what keeps each one, and — asked with a why —
deletes the versions nothing keeps.
| tool | | what |
|---|---|---|
| `npm_packages` | r | every package of the registry's owner, each version newest first with its publish time, its size and why it is kept |
| `npm_retention` | a | the versions retention would delete, and the bytes. **A dry run unless `dry_run` is false**; a real run needs `why` |
**A version is kept when:**
- a lockfile on the default branch of any repository on the forge names it — `package-lock.json`
(every lockfile version), `npm-shrinkwrap.json`, `yarn.lock` (classic and berry) and `pnpm-lock.yaml`
(by each resolved `name@version` or `name/version`), whatever the version's age;
- it is the highest published version satisfying a range that a `package.json` there names in its
dependencies, development, peer or optional dependencies (an `npm:` alias counts for the package it
stands for; a path, a URL, git or a workspace is not a range on this registry). npm itself installs
the `latest` dist-tag when it satisfies the range; that version is kept by its dist-tag;
- a dist-tag names it — and a range that *is* a dist-tag's name keeps that tag's version;
- it is among the newest `keep` of its package, five by default (the artifact store's five builds,
ADR 0189 §3), by semantic-version order. **Pre-releases count** among the newest.
A version that is not a semantic version is never ordered, so it is kept. A range that cannot be read,
or a package whose dist-tags cannot be read, keeps **every** version of its package, and the answer says
why under `keeps_all`.
**Nothing is deleted on partial knowledge.** A repository whose files could not be listed, or a
manifest or lockfile that could not be fetched, is named under `repositories_unread` in every answer,
and a real run then deletes nothing at all. A file that was fetched but is not readable (broken JSON) is
named under `files_not_read`, and so is a lockfile entry of a shape the reader does not know (the rest of
that file is still read); what it would have named is not known, so a real run then deletes nothing at all
either. Under `node_modules` nothing is read: that is what a lockfile already says. An empty
repository, or one without its default branch, holds nothing to read and is not a failure.
A real run deletes each version through the forge's own interface (`DELETE
/api/v1/packages/{owner}/npm/{name}/{version}`), says what it deleted and what the forge refused, and a
version already gone counts as deleted.
### How it reaches the forge
Over the forge's HTTP interface on the machine (`MESH_GITEA_URL`), as the admin account the vault
delivered (`MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_USER`, the password in `MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE` — the same file
the TypeScript bundle mints its token with), by basic authentication: this bundle mints no token and
keeps nothing. The password is read per call and never logged, answered or put in an error. The
registry's owner is `MESH_NPM_OWNER`, the owner in the seat's `npm-path`.
Calls to the forge run eight at a time, and one tool call reads for at most 50 seconds, inside a
module's 60-second ask.
### Why the manifest lists no `tools`
The TypeScript bundle's tools are served without a `tools` list, and a claim without `serves` offers
the module's `tools` as the seat's verbs — so a list here would make these two tools verbs of both the
`git` and the `npm-package-registry` seats. The two names are kept in `ToolNames`, and a test holds them
to this README and to what the bundle serves.
### Tests
```
go test ./...
```
Against a fake forge (`httptest`): what keeps a version (a lockfile whatever its age, the highest
version satisfying a range, a dist-tag, the newest `keep`); a dry run deleting nothing; a real run
without why refused; a real run deleting only what nothing keeps; an unread repository stopping a real
run before anything is deleted; an unreadable range keeping its whole package; a wrong password failing
without saying the password. And the range matcher against npm's rules — exact, `^`, `~`, `x` and `*`,
comparisons with partial versions, hyphen ranges, `||`, and the pre-release rule — and each lockfile
format.