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Drop the 3-day soak from the stable lane #84
Description
Drop the 3-day soak from the stable lane: remove min_soak_days = 3 from [lanes.stable] in .github/shipmill.toml, and keep promote_from = "rc" and milestone = true.
Why
The soak checks nothing here: nobody installs the rc on purpose during the 3 days and no telemetry reads it, so it only delays a stable release that CI and review already proved. A bad stable release is fixed forward in minutes, faster than the soak lasts.
The milestone stays: it is the maintainer's decision of what this stable version must contain, not a wait. With the soak gone, once the milestone is done the stable lane promotes the newest rc at once (its CI passes again on the stamp commit, D-25 and D-28 in shipmill).
Change
.github/shipmill.toml: delete themin_soak_days = 3line, and update the comment above[lanes.stable]so it no longer says "soaked 3 days"shipmill doctorpasses, andshipmill plannames the newest rc as the candidate with no soak in its reason
Context: shipmill/shipmill decided to replace the time soak with continuous delivery (stable on every green batch, a pre-release only where the maintainer decides); the spec for shipmill's own defaults is on its way. This repo's change doesn't wait for it: min_soak_days defaults to 0 today.
Requested by @romamo in chat; written by Claude on his behalf.
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shipmill-romamo commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Triage: implement, for the next release candidate.
Checked on main (3c2d06c):
[lanes.stable]in.github/shipmill.tomlstill setsmin_soak_days = 3, and the comment above it says "promoted from an rc soaked 3 days". No entry indocs/decisions.mdmentions the soak, so dropping it departs from no recorded decision; it is the maintainer's own request.The plan:
min_soak_days = 3line, keepingpromote_from = "rc"andmilestone = true[lanes.stable]so it no longer mentions a soakshipmill doctorandshipmill planthat the policy parses and that the stable lane names no soakNo CHANGELOG fragment: the release policy isn't part of what users install. I'll link the PR here.
shipmill-romamo commentedon Oct 19, 2026
The change is in #85: it deletes
min_soak_days = 3from the stable lane and rewords the comment above it, so stable 0.7.0 promotes the newest rc as soon as its milestone is done.shipmill doctorpasses andshipmill plannames no soak. This issue closes when #85 merges.shipmill-romamo commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Released in v0.7.0rc4 (pre-release). uv tool install --prerelease allow cloudfall==0.7.0rc4
A plain install gets it with the next stable release.
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shipmill-romamo commentedon Oct 20, 2026
Released in v0.7.0.
uv tool install cloudfall==0.7.0