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feat(delivery): phase 12 — the container, and the defect only a proxy could find
PLAN.md §13 phase 12, the last one. Four decisions of record, D54–D57, taking the
count to fifty-seven; recorded in §6, "How phase 12 delivered it".

A two-stage Dockerfile, a pull-only docker-compose.yml carrying both bind mounts,
.env.example, the workflow that publishes and deploys, CONTRIBUTING.md, the
community-health files this was the only repository of the ten to lack, and
DEPLOY.md.

D54 — a merge deploys, amending D6. build-image.yml pushes
runicgateway-site:latest and :sha-<7>, then rolls the container over on the
`rgcom` runner out of /opt/runicgateway.com, and waits for the container's own
healthcheck rather than for `up -d` to return.

D55 — the site runs on its own host behind a generic reverse proxy, so DEPLOY.md
states the four requirements rather than one worked example, and the container
binds 127.0.0.1 so the safe configuration is the default.

D56 — @astrojs/node derives the request protocol from req.socket.encrypted and
never reads x-forwarded-proto, so behind a TLS-terminating proxy the browser sends
Origin: https://… while the container computes http://… and Astro's CSRF check
compares them for equality. Every beta signup, from every visitor, was answered
403. serve.mjs now normalises both forwarded headers, unconditionally — the image
should deploy and work. Two assertions in test/headers.test.mjs hold both halves.

D57 — DEPLOY.md rather than a README section; SECURITY.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
are pointers to the org's copies rather than copies, because a copy would hard-code
the contact address D13 confines to brand.json.

Verified: npm run verify green (eleven checks, 36 unit tests, 7 served tests,
astro check 0 errors). The image was built and run with both mounts — a mounted
brand reached 51 files and all 50 search pages, /brand/* fell back per file, a
proxy-shaped signup reached the store, and the export CLI wrote both Play files to
the host mount. docker compose config caught a YAML trap in the healthcheck: a
block sequence reads the `: ` in `r.ok ? 0 : 1` as a mapping.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 16:54:38 -05:00

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# Contributing to runicgateway.com
Thanks for your interest. This repository is the **public marketing and documentation site** for
[Runic Gateway][org] — the platform that puts a private game server's live state on a public website
without ever exposing the game to the internet.
It is a site, not a component. Nothing else in the organisation depends on it, and it depends on
everything: almost every sentence here describes something that lives in another repository.
By participating you agree to abide by our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
## Read the plan first
**[`PLAN.md`](PLAN.md) is the design of record.** It is not a sketch — it carries the verified
platform state, the org lead's fifty-odd decisions, the information architecture, the accuracy
machinery and the build phases. A change that contradicts a decision recorded there needs the
decision changed first, in the same pull request, with the reasoning written down.
Two things it records are worth knowing before you write a line:
- **§1 — the site never re-specifies a contract.** `docs/` is normative for the protocol, the module
API, the backend design and the installer. This site teaches, links out, and quotes versions from
data rather than prose. A page that restates a contract is a page that will be wrong later, and
nothing will notice.
- **§12 — the checks are the mechanism, and their failure is the feature.** When the platform moves,
this repository goes red so that somebody updates the site. Do not route around a check; if one is
wrong, fix the check and say why in the pull request.
## Ways to contribute
- **Report a bug** or **request a feature** through the [issue tracker][issues] — templates are
provided.
- **Improve a page, a check or the build** by opening a pull request.
- **Never** report a security vulnerability in a public issue. See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).
If you spot a claim on the site that is *wrong about the platform* — a version, a capability, a
command that no longer exists — that is the most valuable report this repository can receive.
## Development setup
**Prerequisites:** Node 22 LTS or newer. Nothing else — no database, no game server, no container
runtime for ordinary work.
```bash
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:4321
```
```bash
npm run build # → dist/ (prerendered pages + the Node server entry)
npm start # serve the built site, exactly as the container does
```
Two directories are **bind mounts at runtime and not in the repository**: `brand/` overrides the
stock branding per file, and `data/` holds the beta signup store. Both are optional locally; an
absent `brand/` produces exactly the stock site, and `data/` is created on first write.
## The checks
There are eleven, plus two test suites. `npm run verify` runs all of them in dependency order, and
that is what CI does on every pull request.
```bash
npm run verify
```
Three of them read other repositories over the Gitea API and need a token with access to the
organisation, not just this repository:
```bash
GITEA_TOKEN=<token> npm run check:facts # every version agrees with its authority
GITEA_TOKEN=<token> npm run check:quickstart # the install page still matches website's own files
GITEA_TOKEN=<token> npm run check:reference # every name the Reference lists still exists
```
Without a token they fail rather than skip, deliberately: a check that silently passes when it could
not do its job is worse than no check. CI maps the org-level `REGISTRY_TOKEN` secret into
`GITEA_TOKEN` for those three steps.
The README's "The checks, and why they are not optional" section explains what each one guards.
Read it before adding a page — several of them constrain how a page may be written, particularly
`check:tokens` (no colour literal outside `src/styles/tokens.css`) and `check:links` (no commit
permalinks into org repositories).
## Writing for this site
- **Understated honesty** (D8). The site reads as finished. Where something is not built, the
absence is stated as data in `src/data/notBuilt.mjs` and rendered — never implied by silence and
never dressed up as a roadmap.
- **No version in prose.** Every externally-sourced fact lives in `src/data/platform.json` and is
re-read from its authority by `check:facts`. If you find yourself typing a version number into a
sentence, put it in the data file instead.
- **No email address in `src/` or `scripts/`** (D13). The published contact is a `brand.json` field
so that changing it stays a file copy and a restart. `check:facts` enforces this.
- **British spelling**, in common with the rest of the organisation's prose.
## Branch and pull-request workflow
1. Branch from `main` with a descriptive name (`feature/…`, `fix/…`, `docs/…`, `chore/…`).
2. Keep changes focused; small pull requests are easier to review.
3. Run `npm run verify` before opening the pull request.
4. Push and open a pull request against `main`. Fill out the template, including the **AI-assisted
contributions** disclosure.
5. A maintainer will review; address feedback with follow-up commits.
### Commit messages
[Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) — `type(scope): summary`, in common
with every repository in the organisation. For example `fix(docs): correct the installer flag on the
quickstart`.
### What merging does
Merging to `main` builds a container image, publishes it to the Gitea registry and **deploys it**
(`.gitea/workflows/build-image.yml`). There is no separate release step and no manual promotion, so
a merge is a publication. [`DEPLOY.md`](DEPLOY.md) describes the whole path, including how to roll
back to a previous build.
## AI-assisted contributions (disclosure required)
This project is developed openly with AI assistance, and we ask the same transparency of everyone.
**If you used an AI tool** (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to help produce a contribution,
you must disclose it:
- Tick the AI-usage box in the pull-request template and name the tool(s).
- Mark AI-authored commits with a trailer, e.g. `Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>` or
`Assisted-By: <tool>`.
- You remain responsible for every line you submit: review it, understand it, and make sure it is
correct and that you have the right to contribute it.
Disclosed AI assistance is welcome. Undisclosed AI-generated contributions are not, and may be
closed.
## Licence
Runic Gateway is licensed under the **GNU General Public License v3.0 or later** (see
[LICENSE](LICENSE)). By submitting a contribution you agree that it is licensed under the same terms
(inbound = outbound) and that you have the right to contribute it.
[org]: https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway
[issues]: https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/runicgateway.com/issues