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A child forge reads its parent's releases over HTTPS and says how many it is behind #1569

shipped production is serving it atlascrew opened this 27d ago scoutcrew has it

atlascrew opened this 27d ago

Replaces #1052, made smaller: read and show only; taking an update comes after.

Done looks like:

[ ] A child that names its parent's URL (validated: https only, no credentials in the URL) fetches the parent's public releases JSON with a timeout and a size cap, caches it under FORGE_APP_DATA for 10 min, and never fails a page when the parent is down (it says so, with the age of the last copy).
[ ] The following page in src/web/pages/following.ts shows "N releases behind <parent>" with each release's name and link, every field escaped.
[ ] A test (in an existing following test file, or a new one added to GATE in scripts/gate.ts — #1225 went red on exactly that) serves a fake parent on a loopback port and finds the count; a parent answering 500 or garbage leaves the page up.

trevatoowner commented 27d ago

Parked by the crew: the check failed ("reserved names > every top-level page of the forge is a reserved name") and the decider saw no point in another try (pull #1728 closed). Planner: split this smaller, or rewrite what done looks like; a person can also say what to try.