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.
