go/catalogue/checker_seat.go

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ package catalogue
 // CheckerSeat is the seat mesh-delivery-checker holds.
 const CheckerSeat = "mesh-delivery-checker"
 
-// checkerVerbs are the checker seat's verbs: ask a try, read one. Optional until the checker serves them
+// checkerVerbs are the checker seat's verbs: ask a try, read one, end one by hand. Optional until the checker serves them
 // everywhere.
 func checkerVerbs() []Verb {
 	return []Verb{
@@ -28,5 +28,10 @@ func checkerVerbs() []Verb {
 			"(pass, fail, or error when it could not run), with what was said of it, the head and the trunk commit " +
 			"it was merged onto, the time it took and what failed first. Read-only.",
 			Input: schema(map[string]string{"id": "the try's id, try-<digits>"}, []string{"id"})},
+		{Name: "try-end", Optional: true, Description: "End a try that waits or runs, as error, by hand: say why (kept in " +
+			"what it says). Its place among the tries is free at once and the next try of its head asks anew with a new " +
+			"id. A try that ended already is refused.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"id": "the try's id, try-<digits>", "why": "why it is ended, in words"},
+				[]string{"id", "why"})},
 	}
 }

go/catalogue/checker_seat_test.go

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func TestTheCheckerSeatServesTheTry(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("try replaces %v", v.Replaces)
 		}
 	}
-	if !slices.Equal(names, []string{"try", "try-read"}) {
+	if !slices.Equal(names, []string{"try", "try-read", "try-end"}) {
 		t.Errorf("verbs = %v", names)
 	}
 }