#191's last acceptance criterion was a live drill against the MERGED tree,
not the candidate. Run against `fda5657`:
probe 1 merge door one release 0.4.1, changelog body, main re-armed
to 0.4.2-dev, both assets uploaded
probe 3 no label refused, nothing created
probe 5 tag door 0.5.0 published, main VERSION untouched
probe 6 bad tag refused, nothing created
The fixture carried an artifact hook this time, dropping `drill asset.tgz`
and `a&b.tgz`. Both survived under those exact names — the encoding fix
proven end to end, in the place it would have failed: after the tag exists,
mid-publish.
The record keeps run 1 (the failure at 9a229ee) beside run 2, because the
failure is why #191 exists and a record that quietly replaced it would be
the kind of tidy history this repo refuses.
Refs #191
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0.4.1 — drill record
Two runs. The first, 2026-08-04 against release PR !190 head 9a229ee,
failed: both doors were inoperable and the release could not publish at
all. The second, after #191 landed as fda5657, passed. Both are
recorded, because the first is why the second exists.
Run 2 — against merged main fda5657 (the one that counts)
Where: disposable private repo heavy-duty/ceremony-drill-0.4.1-final,
armed at 0.4.1-dev, carrying the docs/CONSUMERS.md release caller, a
fragment-mode fixture, and — unlike run 1 — an artifact hook dropping two
deliberately awkward filenames, drill asset.tgz and a&b.tgz. Archived at
the end; the operator's delete is pending, and cleanup gates nothing.
Candidate ref: cluade-reviewer-andresmgsl/ceremony@drill-main, parent
fda5657, whose only extra commit rewrites both CEREMONY_SELF_REF
carriers to that SHA — release.yml's self-checkout is hardcoded to
heavy-duty/ceremony, so only a SHA that resolves there can stand in for a
tag that does not exist yet. No 0.4.1 branch was created on
heavy-duty/ceremony.
| # | probe | result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | merge-door ceremony | ✅ exactly one release 0.4.1; body is the version's own changelog section; main re-armed to 0.4.2-dev; both assets uploaded |
| 3 | bare version, no release label |
✅ refused — release count stayed 1 |
| 5 | tag door, matching tag | ✅ 0.5.0 published with its own section and both assets; main VERSION untouched |
| 6 | mismatched tag | ✅ 9.9.9 refused — release count stayed 2 |
Not run: probe 2 beyond the implicit -dev no-op at fixture push, and probe
4 — a re-run of a completed ceremony, which needs a re-trigger this round did
not exercise. Recorded as not-run rather than implied.
The asset names survived intact: a&b.tgz and drill asset.tgz both
appear under those exact names on both releases. Before #191's fix the space
made curl reject the URL outright and the & split the query — the failure
landing after the tag exists, mid-publish, which is the worst place this
door has.
Run 1 — against 9a229ee, before the fix (FAILED)
Recorded in full because the failure is the reason #191 exists.
| # | probe | result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | merge-door ceremony | ❌ decide refused: labeled=no for a PR that was labeled and was merged |
| 5 | tag door | ❌ gh: command not found at publish the release |
| 6 | mismatched tag | ✅ refused, creating nothing |
Root cause, both doors: lib/facts.sh and release.yml spoke gh, which
the runner image does not ship. facts.sh read any failure as a definite
no, so a missing binary silently demoted a release ceremony to "a bare
push". Release count across the whole of run 1: 0.
What changed between them
#191, merged as fda5657: both doors onto lib/forge.sh; a read that did
not complete refuses instead of fabricating a no; forgejo_api_base
refuses an empty REPO so repos//… cannot be addressed; release asset
names percent-encoded.
Every refusal path, in both runs, created nothing. That property never broke — what broke was the doors' ability to say yes.