The on-page label for `--release alpha|beta` cuts used to read
`vX.Y.Z-channel · YYYY-MM-DD · word-word-word`. The three-word slug
(derived deterministically from the source SHA via shared/build-words.txt)
was meant to make "is this the same build you emailed about?" a glance
check, but the cute-words layer turned out to be more confusing than
clarifying — testers prefer a real timestamp + short SHA.
New label shape, identical to plain dev builds:
vX.Y.Z-channel · YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS · <short-source-sha>[-dirty]
Helper renamed from _source_commit_slug to _source_commit_short_sha,
returning the short SHA of the source commit (walking past any
`chore(embedded): cut …` commit at HEAD so a re-cut on unchanged
source produces the same SHA). The wordlist file is no longer
referenced and is removed; tests/build-label.spec.js's regex
simplified to require the full timestamp + SHA form.
mdedit/ is gone. Its functionality moved into browse's preview plugin
(browse/js/preview-markdown.js) — YAML front matter editing, outline,
and on-demand DOCX/HTML/PDF download all happen there. Browse is the
default_tool for working/ + reviewing/ as of the previous commit, so
existing URLs of the form /<project>/working land on browse without
operator action.
Removed:
• mdedit/ source tree (Toast UI app, CSS, JS, template, build.sh)
• zddc/internal/apps/embedded/mdedit.html (//go:embed blob)
• tests/mdedit.spec.js + the "mdedit" project in playwright.config.js
• mdedit entries in zddc/internal/apps/embed.go (//go:embed, var,
switch case in EmbeddedBytes)
• "mdedit" in zddc/internal/zddc/validate.go AppNames + the matching
error-message app list
• "mdedit.html" branch in zddc/internal/apps/handler.go MatchAppHTML
• mdedit case in tests (handler_test.go, validate_test.go,
zddchandler_test.go) — test fixtures now use browse/classifier
• mdedit from build (per-tool build.sh loop, tool-list literals,
composer cards) and shared/build-lib.sh ZDDC_RELEASE_TOOLS
• mdedit from freshen-channel's tool list and usage banner
• mdedit-specific paragraphs in AGENTS.md and ARCHITECTURE.md;
Markdown Editor section in ARCHITECTURE.md rewritten to point at
browse/js/preview-markdown.js
• mdedit from CLAUDE.md, README.md, zddc/README.md tool lists
Historical mdedit_v*.html / mdedit_v*.html.sig files in
/srv/zddc/releases/ on the deploy host are immutable history — they
stay where they are. The next ./build release cut will simply not
produce new mdedit_v* artifacts.
`./build alpha|beta` now stamps a date + a three-word slug derived from
the source SHA (e.g. "v0.0.17-beta · 2026-05-12 · candle-mast-pearl")
instead of a raw hex SHA. The build-label spec's channel-label regex
only matched the hex-SHA form (still used by plain dev builds), so it
failed on every release cut. Accept either trailing field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rolls back the HTML-tool side of the Codeberg-as-canonical refactor
(commits 2dc9ad2, b28c4ae, bdac8dc) in favor of a simpler model:
per-version HTML files committed under website/releases/ as immutable
real files; partial-version pins (<tool>_v<X.Y>.html, <tool>_v<X>.html)
and channel mirrors (<tool>_<channel>.html) are checked-in symlinks.
Docker-tag pattern: :1.2.3 is pinned, :1.2 floats, :1 floats further,
:stable floats furthest.
URL scheme — every URL resolves to actual HTML via the symlink chain;
no JS indirection, no manifest.json, no Caddy regex-rewrite:
/releases/<tool>_v<X.Y.Z>.html exact version (real file)
/releases/<tool>_v<X.Y>.html latest patch within X.Y.* (symlink)
/releases/<tool>_v<X>.html latest within X.*.* (symlink)
/releases/<tool>_stable.html current stable (symlink)
/releases/<tool>_beta.html current beta (symlink to stable when no
active beta; real file when beta is in flight)
/releases/<tool>_alpha.html current alpha (similar — symlink to beta
or stable when no active alpha)
Cascade rule (in shared/build-lib.sh promote_release):
--release [version] (stable cut) → write per-version file; refresh 5
symlinks (_v<X.Y>, _v<X>, _stable,
_beta, _alpha) → new versioned file;
tag <tool>-v<X.Y.Z>.
--release beta → overwrite <tool>_beta.html with real
bytes; cascade _alpha.html → _beta.html
(symlink). No tag — channel URLs are
stable URLs by design; counters defeat
that.
--release alpha → overwrite <tool>_alpha.html with real
bytes. No tag, no other side-effects.
Plain `sh tool/build.sh` → dist/ only. No website/releases/
side-effect, no commit.
Code changes:
- .gitignore — drop website/releases/*.html and website/releases/zddc-server-*
exclusions; HTML tool files are tracked again. Replace the comment with
the new model description.
- shared/build-lib.sh — drop next_prerelease (no -alpha.N / -beta.N counter
tags). Drop the Codeberg-upload path for HTML tools (no longer sourcing
publish-codeberg-release.sh from build-lib). promote_release rewritten
with two helpers: _promote_stable (per-version file + 5 symlinks + tag)
and _promote_channel (overwrite mirror + cascade alpha→beta on beta cut).
- zddc/release.sh — drop alpha/beta channel path entirely; binaries publish
only on stable cuts. zddc-server's beta/alpha builds-from-source via the
helm charts (next phase) — no binary distribution needed for those channels.
- bootstrap/level2.html.tmpl — drop manifest.json fetch; resolve ?v= to a
static URL via the symlink chain. New suffixFor() handles channel names,
exact versions, and partial-version pins (?v=0.0, ?v=0). Same logic in
level1.html.tmpl already works because the local-staging files (e.g.
../<tool>_v0.0.html) exist via the same symlink scheme.
- build.sh build_releases_index — revert to filesystem scan of
website/releases/ instead of Codeberg API call. Drop manifest.json
generation. Per-tool sections list channel chips + per-version pin links;
zddc-server section links to Codeberg release pages directly.
- tests/build-label.spec.js — fix the channel-label regex to match the
pre-release-semver format introduced in commit 9459139 ("v0.0.3-alpha · ...").
Pre-existing test failure that wasn't caught at the time.
Storage:
- 30 new committed files under website/releases/ — 10 real (per-version) +
20 symlinks (5 tools × 4 partial/channel variants, plus alpha as a real
file by default).
- Initial state: stable v0.0.2 across all 5 tools; alpha/beta/v0.0/v0
symlinks all point at <tool>_v0.0.2.html.
- manifest.json deleted (no longer needed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundles a stretch of in-progress work across the SPA tools so the
tree returns to a coherent shippable state ahead of cutting a new
zddc-server stable image:
- landing: substantial rework of the project picker (sortable/filterable
table, presets refactor, ?projects= filter, ?v= channel propagation,
loading/error states)
- archive: presets cleanup, source.js refactor, filtering/url-state
alignment with the landing page
- mdedit: file-system module split, resizer, file-tree improvements,
base/toc styling tweaks
- transmittal/classifier: small template touch-ups for shared chrome
- shared: build-lib.sh helpers, new favicon.svg
- bootstrap, build.sh: pick up the channel-aware install/track zip
generation
- tests: new landing.spec.js, expanded archive/mdedit/build-label specs
- docs: CLAUDE.md picks up the zddc-server section and freshens the
alpha-build exception note
- regenerated artifacts: install.zip, track-{alpha,beta,stable}.zip,
*_alpha.html — these are produced by `sh build.sh` and per project
convention are committed alongside the source changes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ZDDC — Zero Day Document Control. A file-naming convention plus five
single-file HTML tools (archive, transmittal, classifier, mdedit,
landing) and an optional Go HTTP server (zddc-server) with ACL and a
virtual archive index. Self-contained, offline-capable, dependency-free.
See README.md for an overview, AGENTS.md and ARCHITECTURE.md for the
build/release/architecture detail, bootstrap/README.md for the
two-level deployment install pattern, and zddc/README.md for the
HTTP server.
