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fix(commitrequest): keep a save's writes under its message, and answer it sooner - #465
The gitops-api save asks #39, #41, #38 and #40 (docs/future/gitops-api-open-asks.md), one commit per ask, stacked on #463, plus the revert of #39's window rule. Each commit passes task lint and task test on its own.
The scenario that keeps working: a CommitRequest inside an applied folder
A CommitRequest kept in a folder next to the objects it saves, applied with kubectl apply -f folder/, makes one commit of those objects. The commit is authored by the person, carries the request's message, and the request ends Committed. This holds in both orders kubectl can apply them in. CurrentOrNext stays the default: with the objects first, it is the only policy that attaches to their window.
Unit, at the branch worker on its own clock (commit_request_folder_test.go). The cases are objects first with the request registering after both objects or between them, and request first. The request's registration lags, and the writes are spread over 1.7–1.9 s. These tests were green before any change and stay green.
e2e, one spec on the commit-request leg. It applies a fixture folder (test/e2e/fixtures/commit-request-folder/: two ConfigMaps, then the request, under the schema defaults) to a GitTarget with a 300 s window. It asserts one commit, its message, its author, the exact changed paths, and Committed.
The second kubectl apply, found out and pinned in the same spec. An unchanged folder sends no write (kubectl reports unchanged), so nothing is saved, and the finished request keeps its outcome. An edited message under the same name is refused by the immutable spec (CommitRequest spec is immutable after creation). kubectl exits non-zero after applying the other files, and their edits would commit under the generated message. If the TTL already deleted the request, the apply creates it again, and it ends NoWindow.
Is the CommitRequest itself ever mirrored? No. The default watch policy excludes configbutler.ai/commitrequests whatever a WatchRule names or covers with * (internal/watch/resource_policy.go). That exclusion was untested; TestScanEntries_ACommitRequestIsNeverMirrored pins it now, and the e2e spec asserts the commit holds only the two ConfigMaps.
The recipe is in the guide, under "Saving a folder with kubectl apply" in docs/configuration.md: put a CommitRequest in the folder, and give it a new name per apply.
#39: a save's message landed on somebody else's change, fixed by #40
Root cause.attachToWindow started both of the request's timers at the attach. It did not reach into the window's past, as the write-up says. The real cause is the default maxDuration: "2s" with no idle timeout. Suppose a write of the same author that no request claimed leaves a window open. The next save attaches to that window at registration, and the client then waits up to 2 s (the #40 poll) for WaitingForWindow before it writes. By then the window has closed under the request's message, and the save's own writes commit under the generated message. TestSaveFolder_ThreeSavesInARowKeepEachMessageOnItsOwnChange reproduced the customer's shift by one before the fix: feat: save-1 landed on the unclaimed write, feat: save-2 on save 1's edit, and so on, and save 3's edit committed as chore: sync 1 resource. The window rule was right; the poll was the bug.
The fix is #40. With the registration reported in about 56 ms, a save's writes land well inside its 2 s maxDuration. TestSaveFolder_ThreeSavesInARowKeepEachMessageOnItsOwnChange writes 100 ms after registering and pins each message on its own change. With the old 2.1 s delay it fails with exactly the shift by one.
Tried and reverted: holding the save's timers.cb6fd4f2 held a save's timers until its first write after it attached to a window that was already open, and c0603a01 reverts it. Until that write, the GitTarget's timers decided when the save committed. A GitTarget with a short idleTimeout closed the window on the earlier writes and brought the bug back, and a folder applied together with its CommitRequest waited out the target's 5 s idle instead of the save's 2 s. A CommitRequest commits on its own timers only. The window rule, the CRD text and schema revision 1 are main's again, and UPGRADING.md has no entry for #39.
What remains: a save's writes must reach the worker within maxDuration of the attach. On a slow audit pipeline, raise maxDuration.
A push that a pending write carrying a CommitRequest waits on now skips PushCooldown, as a push an apply waits on already did. What the cooldown protects stays (docs/design/push-cooldown.md): an author has one save in progress at a time, so saves cannot make a burst, and plain writes keep the cooldown. Tests cover two saves in a row inside the cooldown, each pushed and resolved at once, and two plain commits inside the cooldown, which still share one scheduled push. The many tests that held a save's local commit behind the cooldown to inspect it now say so through holdPushes, which sets a test-only cooldownHoldsSaves seam.
#38: a source-cluster request no path can serve ends NotAllowed
Before, a request on a source cluster naming a GitTarget of another KubeProvider was left alone, rechecked every 5 minutes, and never got a status. It now ends Ready=False, reason NotAllowed, with a message naming both clusters, when no path can serve it from there:
The GitTarget mirrors the control cluster. A kubeconfig that points back at the control cluster is a real case: inCluster is restricted, so a tenant's identity there needs a kubeconfig, and its watch then sees the control cluster's own requests. So the source path refuses only once an uncached read of the control cluster finds no request with this one's UID. The same UID is proof that it is the same object, which the control path serves. CommitRequestServer.APIReader is mgr.GetAPIReader().
The GitTarget's KubeProvider serves no CommitRequests, so no watch picks the request up.
A GitTarget whose KubeProvider does serve CommitRequests is still left alone, because that provider may watch the same cluster under another identity. That remaining gap needs the cluster ID already on the future-work list. A refused request is never attached. Because it finishes, a KubeProvider with ReconcileAndDeleteFinished stamps and deletes it after the TTL; tested.
The worker reports each change of a request's standing (registered, attached, committed, resolved, apply moved) on WorkerManager.CommitRequestChanges(), following the PublicationEvents pattern. CommitRequestWakes turns each change into the next step at once: a GenericEvent reconcile on the control cluster, and a wake of the goroutine serving a source-cluster request. A change that arrives while that goroutine is mid-step is kept for its next wait. A registered request is polled only every 10 s, as the fallback for a dropped change. Before registration nothing reports, so the 2 s poll stays there.
Measured in TestCommitRequestWakes_AWorkersChangeTakesTheNextStepAtOnce, on the production source-cluster loop, against a worker that registers 50 ms after the attach and pushes 3 s after it:
polled (before)
woken (after)
create → WaitingForWindow
2.005 s
56 ms (50 ms of it is the simulated registration)
push → Ready
1.004 s (up to 2 s, depending on the poll's phase)
5 ms
The guide and UPGRADING.md now carry the sentence the customer asked for: a client that relies on SaveInProgress to keep its saves apart waits for the Reconciling reason WaitingForWindow or CollectingWindow before it writes, not only for Ready=Unknown.
Pushed before the local e2e pass, which the task prompt had asked for, because the maintainer asked mid-run for GitHub's independent results. On 05ba2cfa, the local task test-e2e (113 specs) and task test-e2e-source-cluster (19 specs) both passed. A local run on the revert follows.
A separate test-only commit (test(git): never sign a fixture's own commits): gitIn passes commit.gpgSign=false. Without it, local runs fail whenever the developer's signing agent goes away; CI signs nothing.
Out of scope, as asked: the withheld-apply bug, and #36, #37 and #10.
Folder saves can be committed immediately with a CommitRequest, without waiting for the usual push cooldown. Saves by the same author are handled one at a time; ordinary writes continue to follow the cooldown.
Commit request progress and outcomes update more promptly as work proceeds, with periodic polling as a fallback.
Requests that cannot be handled are reported as not allowed and may be automatically deleted after their retention period.
Documentation
Updated migration and configuration guidance with save timing, request handling, and folder-apply behavior.
…both orders
A CommitRequest kept in a folder beside the objects it saves, applied with
kubectl apply -f folder/, makes one commit of those objects under its message,
whichever order kubectl applies them in. Pin that at the branch worker on its
own clock, with a lagging registration and writes spread over two seconds, and
in one e2e spec on the commit-request leg: objects first, the schema defaults,
one commit, its author, message and paths, and Committed. The spec also pins
the second apply: an unchanged folder saves nothing, and an edited message is
refused by the immutable spec.
A CommitRequest is never mirrored: the default watch policy excludes the type
whatever a WatchRule names. Pin that too, and add the folder recipe to the
configuration guide.
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The changes add worker-driven CommitRequest updates and reconciliation, define refusal behavior for source-cluster requests that no path can serve, and let writes attached to a CommitRequest publish without waiting for the push cooldown.
Changes: CommitRequest processing
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Summary
Worker notifications and wake wiring cmd/main.go, internal/controller/commitrequest_*, internal/git/commit_request_*, internal/git/branch_worker.go, internal/git/save_apply.go, internal/git/worker_manager.go, internal/controller/commitrequest_wakes_test.go, docs/UPGRADING.md, docs/configuration.md, docs/spec/commitrequest-design.md
Worker-reported request changes can wake active request steps and queue reconciliation. Registered requests use a ten-second polling fallback; requests not yet registered retain the existing poll interval.
Source-cluster ownership checks can report NotAllowed when no path serves a request. A matching control-cluster object is left for the control-cluster path.
Save publication and folder apply internal/git/branch_worker.go, internal/git/*_test.go, test/e2e/commit_request_e2e_test.go, test/e2e/fixtures/commit-request-folder/*, test/e2e/inplace_edit_e2e_test.go, docs/UPGRADING.md, docs/api-first-publication.md, docs/configuration.md, docs/design/push-cooldown.md, docs/architecture.md
Writes carrying a CommitRequest bypass the push cooldown; ordinary writes remain subject to it. Tests cover sequential saves and folder application. Documentation describes attachment timing, save windows, and immutable request specs.
sequenceDiagram
participant BranchWorker
participant WorkerManager
participant CommitRequestWakes
participant CommitRequestServer
participant CommitRequestReconciler
BranchWorker->>WorkerManager: report phase, apply, or outcome change
WorkerManager->>CommitRequestWakes: forward buffered change
CommitRequestWakes->>CommitRequestServer: wake matching request UID
CommitRequestWakes->>CommitRequestReconciler: queue reconcile event
CommitRequestServer->>BranchWorker: resume request step and read worker state
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The change is broadly mergeable, but the remaining documentation inaccuracies should be corrected to avoid misleading users about save timing and behavior.
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gitIn ran git with the developer's global config, so a commit.gpgSign set
there made every fixture commit ask the signing agent, and a run whose agent
had gone away failed tests that have nothing to do with signing. CI signs
nothing; pass commit.gpgSign=false so local runs match it.
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A request that attached to a window already open replaced the window's timers
with its own from the attach. Under the defaults (maxDuration 2s, no idle) a
write of the same author that no request claimed, still in its window, made a
save attach at registration and close two seconds later, before the save's
own writes reached the worker; those then committed under the generated
message, and three saves in a row each put their message on the previous one's
change. The attach did not reach into the window's past: the two seconds from
the attach were simply shorter than the client's wait before it writes.
Now a request attached to a window that was already open starts maxDuration
and idleTimeout at the first write the window collects after the attach, within
attachTimeout. Until then the window keeps the GitTarget's timers, the idle
interval restarted at the attach, and closes no later than the attach deadline
plus maxDuration, the latest the request's own timers could have closed it.
With no such write, the window closes on those timers and still carries the
message: a folder applied with its request after its objects. A request that
attaches to the window its own write opens, or sets attachTimeout or
maxDuration to 0s, starts at the attach as before. attach: Next always does.
The reference model follows the new rule; reverting the worker to the old one
fails 4 of its 6 CI seeds. The CRD text changes, so the CommitRequest schema
is revision 2, compatible from revision 1.
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A push that a CommitRequest waits on waited out the five-second PushCooldown
like any other, so a save made within five seconds of the last push resolved
up to five seconds late, and a second save in a row hit it every time. A push
an apply waits on already skips the cooldown; one a save waits on now does
too. An author has one save in progress at a time, so saves cannot make the
burst the cooldown exists to batch, and plain writes keep it.
Tests that inspect a save's local commit before its push used the cooldown to
hold it; they now say so through holdPushes, which also keeps a save behind
it.
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A CommitRequest on a source cluster that named a GitTarget of another
KubeProvider was left alone, rechecked every five minutes, and never got a
status, so its creator waited for ever and, being unfinished, it was never
collected. It now ends NotAllowed, with a message naming both clusters, when
no path can serve it from there:
- the GitTarget mirrors the control cluster, and an uncached read of the
control cluster finds no request with this one's UID; the same UID means the
watch's kubeconfig points back at the control cluster, whose path serves it;
- the GitTarget's KubeProvider serves no CommitRequests, so no watch picks it
up.
A GitTarget whose KubeProvider does serve CommitRequests is still left alone:
that provider may connect to the same cluster under another identity. A
refused request is never attached, and because it finishes, a KubeProvider
with ReconcileAndDeleteFinished now deletes it after the TTL.
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A request's progress was read from its branch worker on a fixed two-second
poll, so a save's visible latency moved in two-second steps: up to two
seconds from the claim to WaitingForWindow, and again from the push to Ready.
A client that waits for registration before it writes, as SaveInProgress
needs, could not avoid it.
The worker now reports each change of a request's standing (registered,
attached, committed, resolved, its apply moved) on
WorkerManager.CommitRequestChanges, as PublicationEvents does for GitTargets.
CommitRequestWakes turns each change into the request's next step at once: a
reconcile of a control-cluster request, and a wake of the goroutine that
serves a source-cluster one. A request the worker has registered is polled
only every ten seconds, the fallback for a dropped change; before the
registration nothing reports, so it keeps the two-second poll.
Measured on the source-cluster loop against a worker that registers 50ms
after the attach: create -> WaitingForWindow 2.005s polled, 56ms woken; push
-> Ready 1.004s polled (up to 2s), 5ms woken.
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local task test-e2e: 113 of 113 passed (909 s), including the new folder spec "saves a folder applied with kubectl apply -f (objects first) in one commit with the request's message".
local task test-e2e-source-cluster: 19 of 19 passed (478 s).
GitHub CI on the same commit: success (run 40682317342).
Revert cb6fd4f, which held a save's timers for its first write after
attaching to a window that was already open. Until that write the
GitTarget's timers decided when the save committed: a GitTarget with a
short idleTimeout closed the window on the earlier writes and brought
back the shift by one of gitops-api ask #39, and a folder applied with
its CommitRequest waited out the GitTarget's 5s idle instead of the
save's 2s maxDuration.
The shift by one came from the 2s status poll, which #40 removed: a
client that waits for its request's registration before it writes
learned of it up to 2s late, the whole default maxDuration. The
three-saves test now writes 100ms after registering, the latency #40
gives, and fails with the old 2.1s.
The window rule, the CRD text and schema revision 1 are main's again.
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Update the remaining attach-timeout examples.
The new default is 5s, but the diagram at Line 299 and the explanation at Line 327 still call it 2s. Update both passages so readers do not mistake the default wait for a shorter one.
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Each KubeProvider watching a namespace on a source cluster looks at every
CommitRequest there. One that does not own the request registered its wake
under the same UID, replacing the owner's, and removed it when it left at
once. It looks again after every status write the owner makes, so with two
providers on one cluster the owner lost its wake on nearly every step and
fell back to the 10s poll, slower than the 2s poll before the wakes.
A request now keeps a wake per goroutine, and a change wakes them all.
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- The folder recipe no longer promises one commit: the window closes 2s
after the attach by default, and another author's write, or one for
another GitTarget on the branch, closes it early. It says how to widen it.
- Edits wait for WaitingForWindow, not Ready=Unknown, which starts at
Saving, before the request is registered. That matches the status section.
- Saves by different authors do not race for a message because a write by
another author closes the window, not because each author has its own.
- The push cooldown has two exceptions: an apply's flush and a save.
- The Flux and Argo CD guides name the watch barrier, bounded at two
minutes, that keeps an apply window open past its 10s grace.
- TODO names v0.55.0 and lists the withheld-apply data loss before the
next release.
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WaitingForWorker is returned by EventRouter when no branch worker exists, so a branch worker cannot report it. This phase remains controller-poll-driven. Revise the sentence to promise immediate updates only for phases and outcomes reported by an existing worker. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Revise the documentation sentence about phase updates so it promises immediate
updates only for phases and outcomes reported by an existing branch worker; keep
WaitingForWorker controller-poll-driven rather than implying the worker reports
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- Around line 1558-1559: Revise the cooldown claim in the documentation to say
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Clarify the cooldown claim for mixed pending writes.
The scheduler checks whether any pending write carries a CommitRequest, then publishes the full pending queue. A plain write already held during cooldown can therefore ride that immediate push. The cooldown does not pace every plain-write stream. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Change this to describe plain-only streams, or update the scheduler if plain writes must never bypass the cooldown.
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Revise the cooldown claim in the documentation to say it paces plain-only write
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Qualify the watch-barrier guarantee.
The barrier is not unconditional. If the source cannot be listed or its resource versions are invalid, the implementation drops the barrier and keeps only the 10-second grace. The paragraph currently says the window waits for every held write in all cases. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Qualify the watch-barrier guarantee.
The barrier is not unconditional. If the source cannot be listed or its resource versions are invalid, the implementation drops the barrier and keeps only the 10-second grace. The paragraph currently says the window waits for every held write in all cases. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
State that the two-minute barrier applies only when it can be taken, and document the grace-only fallback.
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Update the paragraph describing the watch barrier so the two-minute wait for
every write held by the cluster applies only when the barrier can be
established. Also document that if the source cannot be listed or its resource
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Allow both registered phases.
When a matching window is already open, the worker can move from WaitingForWindow to CollectingWindow during the same attach flow. Reconciliation can therefore observe only CollectingWindow. A client that waits only for WaitingForWindow can miss the edit window. Require WaitingForWindow or CollectingWindow, as stated later in this document. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs/configuration.md around lines 3096 - 3097:
Update the registration guidance around the WaitingForWindow status to say
clients should accept either WaitingForWindow or CollectingWindow, so they do
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Correct the sentence grammar.
Replace “with the writes its window held” with “with the writes held in its window.”
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Update the sentence near “Committed” by replacing “with the writes its window
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The gitops-api save asks #39, #41, #38 and #40 (
docs/future/gitops-api-open-asks.md), one commit per ask, stacked on #463, plus the revert of #39's window rule. Each commit passestask lintandtask teston its own.The scenario that keeps working: a
CommitRequestinside an applied folderA
CommitRequestkept in a folder next to the objects it saves, applied withkubectl apply -f folder/, makes one commit of those objects. The commit is authored by the person, carries the request's message, and the request endsCommitted. This holds in both orders kubectl can apply them in.CurrentOrNextstays the default: with the objects first, it is the only policy that attaches to their window.commit_request_folder_test.go). The cases are objects first with the request registering after both objects or between them, and request first. The request's registration lags, and the writes are spread over 1.7–1.9 s. These tests were green before any change and stay green.test/e2e/fixtures/commit-request-folder/: two ConfigMaps, then the request, under the schema defaults) to a GitTarget with a 300 s window. It asserts one commit, its message, its author, the exact changed paths, andCommitted.kubectl apply, found out and pinned in the same spec. An unchanged folder sends no write (kubectl reportsunchanged), so nothing is saved, and the finished request keeps its outcome. An edited message under the same name is refused by the immutable spec (CommitRequest spec is immutable after creation). kubectl exits non-zero after applying the other files, and their edits would commit under the generated message. If the TTL already deleted the request, the apply creates it again, and it endsNoWindow.CommitRequestitself ever mirrored? No. The default watch policy excludesconfigbutler.ai/commitrequestswhatever aWatchRulenames or covers with*(internal/watch/resource_policy.go). That exclusion was untested;TestScanEntries_ACommitRequestIsNeverMirroredpins it now, and the e2e spec asserts the commit holds only the two ConfigMaps.kubectl apply" indocs/configuration.md: put aCommitRequestin the folder, and give it a new name per apply.#39: a save's message landed on somebody else's change, fixed by #40
Root cause.
attachToWindowstarted both of the request's timers at the attach. It did not reach into the window's past, as the write-up says. The real cause is the defaultmaxDuration: "2s"with no idle timeout. Suppose a write of the same author that no request claimed leaves a window open. The next save attaches to that window at registration, and the client then waits up to 2 s (the #40 poll) forWaitingForWindowbefore it writes. By then the window has closed under the request's message, and the save's own writes commit under the generated message.TestSaveFolder_ThreeSavesInARowKeepEachMessageOnItsOwnChangereproduced the customer's shift by one before the fix:feat: save-1landed on the unclaimed write,feat: save-2on save 1's edit, and so on, and save 3's edit committed aschore: sync 1 resource. The window rule was right; the poll was the bug.The fix is #40. With the registration reported in about 56 ms, a save's writes land well inside its 2 s
maxDuration.TestSaveFolder_ThreeSavesInARowKeepEachMessageOnItsOwnChangewrites 100 ms after registering and pins each message on its own change. With the old 2.1 s delay it fails with exactly the shift by one.Tried and reverted: holding the save's timers.
cb6fd4f2held a save's timers until its first write after it attached to a window that was already open, andc0603a01reverts it. Until that write, the GitTarget's timers decided when the save committed. A GitTarget with a shortidleTimeoutclosed the window on the earlier writes and brought the bug back, and a folder applied together with itsCommitRequestwaited out the target's 5 s idle instead of the save's 2 s. ACommitRequestcommits on its own timers only. The window rule, the CRD text and schema revision 1 are main's again, andUPGRADING.mdhas no entry for #39.What remains: a save's writes must reach the worker within
maxDurationof the attach. On a slow audit pipeline, raisemaxDuration.#41: a save is pushed at once
A push that a pending write carrying a
CommitRequestwaits on now skipsPushCooldown, as a push an apply waits on already did. What the cooldown protects stays (docs/design/push-cooldown.md): an author has one save in progress at a time, so saves cannot make a burst, and plain writes keep the cooldown. Tests cover two saves in a row inside the cooldown, each pushed and resolved at once, and two plain commits inside the cooldown, which still share one scheduled push. The many tests that held a save's local commit behind the cooldown to inspect it now say so throughholdPushes, which sets a test-onlycooldownHoldsSavesseam.#38: a source-cluster request no path can serve ends
NotAllowedBefore, a request on a source cluster naming a GitTarget of another KubeProvider was left alone, rechecked every 5 minutes, and never got a status. It now ends
Ready=False, reasonNotAllowed, with a message naming both clusters, when no path can serve it from there:CommitRequestServer.APIReaderismgr.GetAPIReader().A GitTarget whose KubeProvider does serve CommitRequests is still left alone, because that provider may watch the same cluster under another identity. That remaining gap needs the cluster ID already on the future-work list. A refused request is never attached. Because it finishes, a KubeProvider with
ReconcileAndDeleteFinishedstamps and deletes it after the TTL; tested.#40: a request's progress without the 2 s poll
The worker reports each change of a request's standing (registered, attached, committed, resolved, apply moved) on
WorkerManager.CommitRequestChanges(), following thePublicationEventspattern.CommitRequestWakesturns each change into the next step at once: aGenericEventreconcile on the control cluster, and a wake of the goroutine serving a source-cluster request. A change that arrives while that goroutine is mid-step is kept for its next wait. A registered request is polled only every 10 s, as the fallback for a dropped change. Before registration nothing reports, so the 2 s poll stays there.Measured in
TestCommitRequestWakes_AWorkersChangeTakesTheNextStepAtOnce, on the production source-cluster loop, against a worker that registers 50 ms after the attach and pushes 3 s after it:WaitingForWindowReadyThe guide and
UPGRADING.mdnow carry the sentence the customer asked for: a client that relies onSaveInProgressto keep its saves apart waits for theReconcilingreasonWaitingForWindoworCollectingWindowbefore it writes, not only forReady=Unknown.Decisions taken while the maintainer was away
05ba2cfa, the localtask test-e2e(113 specs) andtask test-e2e-source-cluster(19 specs) both passed. A local run on the revert follows.test(git): never sign a fixture's own commits):gitInpassescommit.gpgSign=false. Without it, local runs fail whenever the developer's signing agent goes away; CI signs nothing.Out of scope, as asked: the withheld-apply bug, and #36, #37 and #10.
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CommitRequest, without waiting for the usual push cooldown. Saves by the same author are handled one at a time; ordinary writes continue to follow the cooldown.Documentation