The Gitea registry is on a VPN, which a GitHub runner can never reach, so
the mirror step in the release workflow could only ever fail: its last four
releases reported a step that did nothing. The workflow now builds and
pushes to GHCR alone, which is the registry the installer defaults to, and
nothing in CI mentions Gitea.
The image reaches the Gitea registry through `scripts/mirror-gitea.sh`
(`bun run mirror:gitea`) instead, run in parallel with a release and from the
VPN side: it copies from the Gitea host over ssh, where skopeo can see both
registries, so nothing has to be installed there. `skopeo copy --all` keeps
the manifest list and its signatures, and every destination tag is read back
and compared with GHCR's digest, so a partial copy fails loudly instead of
being assumed to have worked. `latest` and `major.minor` are only moved while
that release still owns them in GHCR, so mirroring an older release never
rolls them back.
Neither direction can fail the other now, which is the point: a registry that
is down, slow or full no longer takes a release with it.
A release meant running the RELEASING.md checklist by hand: tag, push
twice, create the GitHub release, then remember the Gitea push. The two
scripts do the machine-checkable part of it, with the shared flow in
scripts/lib/ so they cannot drift apart: clean worktree, not behind the
remote, typecheck, tests and the install.sh syntax check, then the tag at
HEAD, the branch push and the release object.
Only the release object differs. GitHub creates it with gh, and publishing
it is what fires the image build. Gitea gets the same notes through its
API, with the token from GITEA_TOKEN or the one tea already stored, since
nothing there builds images.
Both accept --version (defaulting to package.json), --branch, --yes,
--dry-run and --skip-checks, and a rerun finishes a release that failed
half way instead of starting over: an existing tag is reused, a pushed ref
is skipped and an existing release is left alone. A tag sitting on another
commit is refused, since publishing would ship that commit's code.
tben