The stable gate proved Validate and Full Performance on the exact SHA but
never ran the release in Home Assistant itself. houseplan-e2e installs
the release's houseplan.zip — the bytes HACS ships — into HA in docker
and walks the sidebar page, dashboards, roles, PDF, restart and the
stable→tag upgrade. release.yml now dispatches e2e.yml on the tag for
`!prerelease` releases and waits for it (scripts/e2e-gate.mjs, modelled
on validate-gate.mjs): the gate recognises its own run by `HP <tag>` in
the job names, ignores foreign dispatches, and reports red / missing /
cancelled / token error with the run link. Betas are untouched.
Mutants: release-ships-on-red-e2e, release-trusts-foreign-e2e-run.
Issue: #514
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Validate ran three smoke shards, golden and performance_smoke on every push,
check-docs went red on any src/** change until screenshots were re-captured,
and a parallel bundle build made every second task branch fail to rebase.
None of these gates ever failed at review time; they fail before betas.
- `heavy` output in job `changes` (scripts/classify-changes.mjs): smoke,
smoke_done, golden, performance_smoke run only for a head commit with a
`Release:` trailer, `workflow_dispatch full=true` and pull requests.
- nightly.yml dispatches Validate on dev with full=true every night.
- check-docs `--screenshots=warn|strict`: freshness of the screenshot index
warns on a plain push, errors on the candidate; everything else still errors.
- publish-prerelease.yml and release.yml refuse a candidate without the
`Release:` trailer and (prerelease) require fresh screenshots — a green
Validate without the heavy jobs cannot pass for a release.
- scripts/rebase-on-dev.mjs: rebase on origin/dev taking dev's copy of the
committed bundle, rebuild with bundle:sync, amend; any other conflict aborts.
- npm run gate:small: mandatory PROCESS §8 part in one parallel run.
Issue: #479
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Owner decision (chat, 2026-08-27): the running check's name must say what it
does, in Russian. Scripts locate workflows by file name (release-gate.mjs ->
validate.yml), so display names are free; job ids and needs are untouched.
The same content is cherry-picked to main because release workflows execute
from the default branch and process.yml must stay identical in main and dev.
Issue: #327
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