The cheap cutover the doc described - manifest over API, payloads still on the
share - does not work. Measured on the win11 VM against lib 2.6 with the same
manifest and engine, varying only InstallerRoot: the payload cache gives
0 installed / 2 failed ("CMD/BAT not found" under the cache), the scope
directory gives 2 installed / 0 failed.
Two causes. Invoke-ShopdbEnforce.ps1 takes no -InstallerRoot and hardcodes the
payload cache outside shadow mode, which is right for displays where every
entry is inline and wrong for every smb entry. And -IncludeCommon cannot work
for smb payloads at all: they live under their own scope directory, so a merged
manifest needs two roots where the engine takes one, and Join-InstallerPath
rejects rooted values by design so absolute paths are not a way out. The real
dispatcher never merges - it calls the engine once per scope with that scope's
root - and a fix should follow that shape.
Both claims are corrected in the doc rather than deleted, because reading it
was what made this look like a twenty-minute job; it would have failed 29 of 31
entries on the pilot bay.
Shadow mode is unaffected - it points InstallerRoot at the share scope dir,
which is the working path - so the pilot proceeds. Register-ShopdbShadow.ps1
is the reference copy of the script that puts a share-attached bay into shadow:
it writes BaseUrl, then registers the task as SYSTEM. It derives the share
manifest from $PSScriptRoot rather than hardcoding a drive, because GE-Enforce
mounts the share to a letter it picks at run time and SYSTEM has no standing
UNC access. Delivered as a manifest entry gated to one hostname, so the pilot
needs no hands on the bay and heals if it drifts.
docs/ is excluded from the code bundle and its scrub gate, because it goes to
the GitHub wiki instead - via a generator that has no gate at all. So the one
part of the repository written in prose, by people, about internal
infrastructure, was the one part nothing checked.
What was reaching a public wiki: the internal git server's URL and hostname,
.gitea workflow paths, developer home directories in the GE-Enforce cutover
reference, and a dev database root password inside a copy-pasteable command in
the import guide.
All replaced with neutral equivalents. tests/test_docs_publishable.py is now the
gate, at the source, in CI - a wiki page cannot be un-published, so catching this
after the fact is not good enough.
PROJECT-REVIEW.md also referred to internal tooling by name throughout; those
references are generalised. It remains an internal candid assessment of this
project that is nonetheless published, which is worth a separate decision.
CLIENT IP / SPOOFABILITY. docs/geenforce-api-cutover.md claimed that removing the
IIS rewrite rule made the allowlist fail closed and that it does NOT become
spoofable. The opposite is true. IIS never sets X-Forwarded-For on its own; the
rule is the only thing that does. Remove it and IIS still forwards whatever
X-Forwarded-For the CALLER sent, waitress trusts it because it arrives from
127.0.0.1, and remote_addr becomes attacker-controlled - so a token-less caller
can fetch manifests from anywhere on the network. The document and the
_trusted_client_ip docstring now say so, waitress runs with
--trusted-proxy-count=1, and stage 5 checks the rule is actually live rather than
assuming it. The wizard question is rephrased to something an operator can verify
with their network team instead of guessing at.
NON-ASCII. The style gate only ever checked .py/.vue/.js/.ts, so documentation
accumulated em-dashes, arrows and box-drawing characters against this repo's own
convention - including in files added this week. Cleaned, and the gate now uses
INCLUDES_ALL so Markdown, JSON and YAML are covered.
PLUGIN DEFAULTS. The wizard pre-ticked measuringtools and printedparts, both of
which ship default_enabled=false, so every site taking the defaults installed and
enabled them against their manifests. Inno has no JSON parser so the list must be
hardcoded, but tests/test_installer_defaults.py now fails when it drifts.
UPGRADES. The payload copy merges, so a plugin dropped from a site's profile kept
its code forever - which defeats a lean build and leaves core's optional-import
guards succeeding for a plugin the site no longer has. Stale plugin directories
are now deregistered and removed before the copy.
add-plugin used 'plugin install', which for the five default_enabled=false
plugins left them installed but DISABLED - and printed a green success line
anyway. It now goes through apply-profile, and the success line is gated on the
exit code. Invoke-Flask records its own exit status, because $LASTEXITCODE keeps
a stale value when flask.exe is missing and no native command runs.
CHARSET. The utf8mb4 compiler hook lived inline in migrations/env.py, so it
covered the CORE chain only: plugin baselines inherited the server default, which
on a latin1 server means two charsets in one database. It is now
shopdb/utils/mysql_charset.py, imported by both, and preflight reports the
database's default charset.
BACKUP HONESTY. The dump was described as 'all of your asset data'. Uploaded
branding and floor-map images live in instance\ on disk, not in the database, so
a restore from the .sql alone comes back with no map. backup now archives
instance\ alongside it and says both are needed.
VERSIONING. AppVersion was hardcoded at 0.9.0 while the product, the frontend and
the newest tag said 0.7.0 - and 0.9.0 collides with a retired contract version.
Both builders now generate version.iss from shopdb/__init__.py.
Smaller: rollback overwrites .env before deleting it, as uninstall already did;
appcmd unlocks are scoped to this site's location rather than server-wide, with
the wide unlock as a fallback; DEVELOPMENT-SETUP says Python 3.14; the README
plugin list gains printedparts; prune-schema --force is documented as
first-provisioning-only; HTTPS is documented as not-the-default with the steps to
add it; the DBA SQL is on the wizard's database page; the features page says
unticking does not remove an installed feature; and the installer README states
that bundle-lock cannot vouch for the exe itself - that needs signing or an
out-of-band hash, neither of which is wired up.
Notification start/end times displayed and stored wrong by the tz offset
(a 2:34 PM entry showed 6:34 PM). Two stacked bugs: to_dict emitted stored
UTC as naive ISO (no offset) so the browser read it as local, and the form
filled the datetime-local input from toISOString() (UTC).
Fix and generalize to a configurable site timezone (multi-site):
- New setting site_timezone (default America/New_York), public, editable in
Settings > Site > Localization (common-zone dropdown).
- Backend tags datetimes UTC (_utc_iso); parse normalizes to naive UTC
(_parse_utc); daily-reset expiry uses the site zone (_next_site_time);
calendar allDay events key off the site-local day (_site_date).
- Shared frontend util datetime.js (Intl-based, DST-safe) converts between a
UTC instant and a site-zone wall clock. Notification form, list, and
calendar all render/enter in the site zone.
