Measured on a throwaway Gitea: with the key secret unset, Preview's
publish job would have fallen back to the runner machine's own ssh
configuration — on the development VM, the production publish key — and
published a throwaway 9.9.9 to the real server. It was cancelled before
it ran. And with the key set, the job wrote over the runner account's own
~/.ssh/config and known_hosts.
Now, under Actions, a job without RELEASE_SSH_KEY stops; with it, the key,
its known_hosts and an ssh configuration live in the job's own directory
and every ssh and rsync goes through `ssh -F` (RELEASE_SSH_CONFIG in
release-lib), which reads nothing else. The key is deleted when the job
ends. By hand, nothing changes. Also records the end-to-end measurements
of Release 1 and of Preview's gate job in docs/releasing.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
ci.yml runs tools/check.sh and the container gate on every push and pull
request, with no secrets. Release 1 builds a version from its release
commit on master or release/*, gates it, and keeps it in a Gitea
pre-release. Release 2 gates that file again on the CI runner and
publishes it to canary (Preview) from the release runner. Release 3
promotes the file Preview ran, on a person's approval. Import records a
release from before Gitea kept the record. All of it is
tools/release-ci.sh calling the existing scripts.
docs/releasing.md: tracks, branches, each step, immutability, rollback,
secrets, runners, Nightly and the hardware lab as designs, the Gitea
administration still to do, and what was measured to make it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>