Adds a 'changelog' job that fails when Cargo.toml's version has no matching
'## [X.Y.Z]' heading in CHANGELOG.md, hard on main and PRs into main, warning
on dev/qa — so the unified release can't ship a crate with a blank changelog.
`dtolnay/rust-toolchain` is not a dependency in the sense Dependabot
means: it is versioned by the Rust release it installs, and the tag we
pin is the toolchain CI is pinned to on purpose — precommit.sh runs the
same one locally, so a lint that passes on a developer's newer default
cannot pass CI by accident.
Read as semver, those tags produced a 1.97.0 -> 1.100.0 proposal, a Rust
version that does not exist. Every such PR 404s on toolchain download
across all eight repos and regenerates weekly: eight permanently-red PRs
that promote.yml then has to special-case when it decides whether dev is
green.
freemkv already carries this ignore; this is the same block in the other
seven, so the fleet stays uniform. Bumping the toolchain stays a
deliberate, all-eight-repos change made by hand together with
precommit.sh.
dev is where work lands and is meant to be pushed to often, so what runs
there should be the cheap answer to "did I break it": lint, tests and the
Linux build. The macOS and Windows jobs now run on qa and main instead of
on every push to dev.
Nothing is deleted and no platform goes unchecked before a release. qa.yml
already covers macOS and Windows independently, and the jobs that live only
here -- the Intel macOS build, the Windows release build -- still run, on
the branches where a cross-platform break is worth blocking on.
They are SKIPPED on dev via `if`, not left unscheduled. A queued job would
be worse than a slow one: release.sh's CI gate refuses while any run for
the commit is still in progress, so a job that never gets a runner blocks
releases silently, with no error anywhere. That is the failure the
real-media note in qa.yml describes, and it is why this is an `if` on the
job rather than a narrower set of trigger branches.
Version updates were never configured here -- only security alerts, which
report but never open a pull request. So the absence of Dependabot PRs was
not "nothing to update", it was "nothing was checking".
Updates target `dev`, never `main`. main is a release pointer that
release.sh moves to each tag, so a bot commit on it would put work there
that no tag contains -- the exact state that aborted the 1.6.2 cascade at
its last step, and pointing a scheduled bot at main would recreate it
weekly.
Minor and patch bumps are grouped into one PR rather than one per crate:
eight repos times a handful of dependencies is a volume nobody reads, and
an unread PR queue is indistinguishable from no updates at all.
The freemkv crates are excluded. They depend on each other by git tag,
re-pinned by release.sh inside the release commit, and Dependabot cannot
see that cascade -- a PR bumping one could pin a version whose tag does
not exist yet.
The first cut ran release-profile tests on all three platforms everywhere,
which invented coverage no crate had ever claimed. bdemu is Linux-only — its
ci.yml has no macOS or Windows job at all, and its tests call
ExitStatus::signal(), which does not exist on Windows, so they do not compile
there let alone run. The rest follow the policy ci.yml already set: tests
execute on Linux and macOS, Windows compiles them so the cfg(windows) halves
still get codegen before release time.
That policy is now explicit in qa.yml as a windows-build job rather than
implied by which jobs happen to exist.
Recorded, not papered over: running the suites on Windows DOES find real
defects — autorip has five Windows path-handling failures in mover.rs and
freemkv-engine has three tests hardcoding /dev/null. freemkv ships a Windows
GUI, so they matter. They are pre-existing rather than 1.6.1 regressions, and
fixing them is its own piece of work.
Also build the binary before cli-parity.sh. cli-integration.sh builds its own;
cli-parity.sh only checks for one and exits 2 with "build it first", so both
legs died before running a single case.
Every push to qa now tags v<version>-rc<N>, N incrementing, before the gates
run. That answers "which build is on qa, and is it the one I tested?" without
anyone having to remember it.
The tag lands whether the run goes green or red, deliberately. A red candidate
needs a name more than a green one does: "rc3 failed release-tests on windows"
is a sentence you can act on, "qa is red" is not. Red on qa is the gate doing
its job — the branch saying this is not production worth yet.
release.yml now excludes v*-rc*. Its trigger was v*, which matches the
candidate tags, so without this every push to qa would have built and PUBLISHED
a GitHub release — including for the candidates that failed.
dev -> qa -> main, across every public repo.
dev is where work lands and is meant to be pushed to often, so ci.yml stays
the fast answer: fmt, clippy, unit tests, leak-guard. qa is the release
candidate, and qa.yml is the claim that a commit is production worth —
release-profile tests on all three platforms, and the Linux cross-target
clippy that the local precommit gate has always run but CI never did.
Release profile matters as its own gate: overflow checks are off, debug_assert
is compiled out, and inlining changes what the optimiser can prove. A test
that only passes in debug never guarded the binary anyone ships.
qa.yml checks siblings out at qa rather than dev. This is not a monorepo, and
a qa run resolving its dependencies from unreleased dev tips would go green on
a combination that is not the one shipping — the exact mismatch the branch
model exists to prevent. ci.yml now tracks whichever branch triggered it for
the same reason, since it also fires on qa.
The consequence is that repos move to qa together, in dependency order. qa is
backfilled from main so an unchanged crate still presents working code to the
crates built on it.
freemkv-unlock had no automated checks at all: no lint, no tests, no
build on any OS but the one a developer happened to be sitting at. It is
the base of the dependency graph — libfreemkv path-deps it, bdemu
path-deps it with the emulation feature, and the rest pull it in
transitively — so a break here takes all seven other repos down, and
until now the first machine to notice would have been the release
workflow.
Full OS matrix, matching libfreemkv's: lint and test on Linux, plus
macOS and Windows building the tests (not `cargo check`, which skips
codegen and never compiles test-only code).
The `emulation` feature gets its own test run. It is off by default and
it is the face bdemu builds against, so nothing was compiling it.
Also adds the leak-guard workflow the other public repos already carry.
Matthew Jackson