The module path, the container image, the Helm chart and the CI pipeline all
named GitHub. They now name the Gitea instance everything else already runs on.
The workflows are rewritten rather than translated. Gitea's runner image is
ubuntu:22.04, whose nodejs is Node 12, so no JS action runs there at all --
actions/checkout@v4 dies with a SyntaxError before it does anything. Every step
is shell, checkout is a plain clone (this repo is public, so it needs no
credential), and the jobs that need docker or helm run in host mode because the
dind bridge a `container:` job gets cannot reach github.com or get.helm.sh.
Two consequences worth naming:
- upload-artifact/download-artifact are also JS actions, and there is no
artifact store here, so the job that builds the binaries is the job that
publishes them. Nothing is passed between jobs.
- setup-qemu-action is gone with the rest, and the runner has no binfmt
registration. The Dockerfile's builder stage now runs on $BUILDPLATFORM and
cross-compiles from TARGETARCH instead, which is what keeps the arm64 image
buildable -- and makes it native rather than emulated.
The chart moves from a GitHub Pages index to an OCI artifact in Gitea's
registry. Publishing stays tag-only for the reason recorded in release.yaml: a
workflow triggered by the branch push cannot know the version it is about to be
tagged with.
The GitHub repository is left in place and untouched. Nothing pushes to it any
more, but its existing release downloads and chart index keep resolving.
An incident's history went quiet after "Incident opened": nothing said
that anybody had been paged, reminded, or told it resolved. Delivery
lived only in the notifications outbox, which no API exposes, so when a
page failed to arrive there was nothing in the product that said whether
it had been sent.
The notifier now writes two event types. A notified event once ntfy
accepts the publish, carrying the kind in detail and the paged user in
user_id — absent when the page went to the shared fallback topic, which
belongs to nobody. And a notify_failed event when a notification
exhausts its retries, which is the one worth having: without it a page
that never landed leaves the timeline identical to one that did.
Both are written from the delivery result rather than at enqueue. A
queued notification is an intention, and the timeline is append-only, so
claiming somebody was told before ntfy accepted it would be a lie that
stays there. A failed timeline write is logged rather than returned, so
it cannot make a delivered row look unsent and send the page twice.
The topic is deliberately in neither: it is a shared secret with the
ntfy server, and every API key can read the timeline.
No migration — incident_events.type is free text, unlike
notifications.kind.
An incident opened, got assigned to whoever held today's schedule entry,
and then sat there silently until somebody thought to look. The schedule
and the incident model were both built; nothing reached the person
holding the pager.
Notifications go out through ntfy, over plain HTTP with no new
dependencies. Delivery is an outbox rather than an inline call: the pool
is limited to a single connection, so a POST made while holding the
webhook's transaction would stall every other request behind it. The
webhook inserts a row and a notifier goroutine sends it within a tick,
retrying with exponential backoff.
Only opening an incident has to resolve a topic from scratch. Reminders
and all-clears reuse whatever that first notification chose, which keeps
configuration out of resolveIfSettled and gives the right rule for free:
you only hear that something resolved if you were told it started.
Each push carries an Acknowledge button, because the useful thing to do
at 3am is stop the pager without unlocking anything. It POSTs to an
unauthenticated /api/notify/ack/{token} — a notification body lives on
the ntfy server and in the device cache, so a real API key must never
appear in one. The token is minted per delivery, scoped to one incident
and one action, and expires in a day.
Reminders repeat until the incident stops being untouched. The stop
conditions are the states that already mean somebody has it: acknowledged,
snoozed, resolved, archived. Snooze is the mute button, so there is no
separate reminder cap.
Notifications sent to the fallback topic carry no Acknowledge button. The
topic is shared, and a button on it would let any subscriber acknowledge
as somebody else.
Niklas Ye