.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ['v*']
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Gitea release from CHANGELOG.md
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - run: python3 release-tooling/publish_release.py
+        env:
+          GITEA_API_URL: ${{ github.api_url }}
+          GITEA_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }}

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -26,11 +26,15 @@ jobs:
           else
             base='${{ github.event.before }}'
           fi
-          if git diff --quiet "$base"...HEAD -- '*.go' go.mod go.sum Dockerfile .dockerignore .github data README.md; then
+          if git diff --quiet "$base"...HEAD -- '*.go' go.mod go.sum Dockerfile .dockerignore .github data testdata README.md; then
             echo "code=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           else
             echo "code=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           fi
+          if ! git diff --quiet "$base"...HEAD -- data testdata/shipped_shape.txt && git diff --quiet "$base"...HEAD -- CHANGELOG.md; then
+            echo "::error::the shipped data changed without a CHANGELOG.md entry (see the README's Versioning)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
       # `docker build` streams the context to the daemon. A compose bind-mount of
       # `.` mounts an empty host dir instead, because the job is itself a container.
       - name: Latest supported Go

AGENTS.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Rules
 
 - Go runs only through `docker compose run --rm <test|vet|fmt|build>`; the merge gate is `docker build .`.
-- Tests first, in their own commit; the implementation follows in the next. A re-pin of seeded output is its own commit.
+- Tests first, in their own commit; the implementation follows in the next. A re-pin of seeded output or of `testdata/shipped_shape.txt` is its own commit.
+- A change under `data/` or to the shape pin adds its `CHANGELOG.md` entry under `Unreleased` in the same PR; what is major is the README's Versioning table.
 - One-line commit messages: no ticket prefix, no repo name, no authorship trailers.
 - Hard tabs. No comment by default; delete a restatement, a rationale, history, or a file preamble.
 - One spelling per result: reject the other at `New`, and let the error name the spelling to use.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Changelog
+
+Format: [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/). A release's
+`Breaking` section comes first and names each rejected spelling with its
+replacement, and each removed path, column or flag.
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Added
+
+- First release: the CLI, the library and the shipped data set.

README.md

@@ -529,6 +529,37 @@ then costs about what its output costs: an unweighted pick is O(1) whatever the
 list's length, a weighted one O(log n), and long formats, deep nesting and many
 tokens add cost in proportion to the output.
 
+## Versioning
+
+Semver tags on `main`, `v0.1.0` first; one version covers the shipped data, the
+library and the CLI, and [`CHANGELOG.md`](CHANGELOG.md) names what each release
+changed. A consumer's data, code and scripts keep working across a minor or a patch:
+a minor only adds, and a major is the only release that changes what exists.
+
+| Surface | Major | Minor |
+|---------|-------|-------|
+| Shipped data | remove or rename a path; change a category's format; remove a value, or change a weight or a repeat; add a reference from one shipped category into another | a path, a locale, a value in a list |
+| Records | remove, rename, retype or add a column; let a column be null | a record, as a new category |
+| Data format | a fence: a spelling `New` rejects that it accepted; an option, since it reserves a field name | a builtin |
+| CLI | remove or rename a flag, or change its default; change what an exit code means; change the bytes a `--format` writes, the `--list` layout, or what an error names | a flag, a format |
+| Library | change or remove an exported name; raise the lowest supported Go | an exported name, an option |
+
+Seeded output is a promise within one version: same seed, same version, same
+data, same output. Any release may shift a stream, since a value added to a list
+moves every draw after it, so pin fixtures per version. An error's wording may
+improve in a minor; the path, rejected spelling and replacement it names may not.
+
+Before `v1.0.0` a minor is the breaking unit: `0.(x+1).0` may carry a major's
+changes, each named in the changelog, and a `0.x.y` patch may not. `v1.0.0` is
+cut once the shipped data is in its record shape and one full minor has shipped
+with no breaking change. From `v2` the module path carries `/vN`, so fences ship
+batched into as few majors as possible.
+
+[`testdata/shipped_shape.txt`](testdata/shipped_shape.txt) pins every path, each
+category's format and each column's datatype and nullability; a pull request that
+changes it or `data/` adds its `CHANGELOG.md` entry, which CI checks. A removed,
+renamed or retyped line is a major.
+
 ## Goals
 
 1. **Valid by construction** — every value passes the check its real consumer
@@ -613,14 +644,30 @@ tokens add cost in proportion to the output.
   folder, `..` the folder above — what those spellings already mean to anyone who
   has typed a path. A locale's files reach each other without naming the locale,
   so a folder renames and copies without editing its references.
-- **After the first tag, a new fence is a major version.** Data files are the
-  public API, and one spelling per result grows by tightening, so every fence
-  invalidates some file. Each such release names the rejected spelling and its
-  replacement in the changelog and in the load error, and that is the whole
-  migration: a fence rejects one spelling with one replacement, so the fix is
-  local to each site. A fence that would need a non-local rewrite ships a
-  converter with its release instead. Before the first tag there is no
-  compatibility promise.
+- **A change to what exists is a major; a minor only adds.** Data files, the CLI
+  and the Go API are the public API, and a consumer must be able to take a minor
+  without an edit — so an added column is a major, since it changes the CSV header
+  and the `INSERT` column list, as is a removed value, which changes what a fixture
+  holds, and a new option, which reserves a field name. One spelling per result
+  grows by tightening, so every fence invalidates some file. Each such release
+  names the rejected spelling and its replacement in the changelog and in the load
+  error, and that is the whole migration: a fence rejects one spelling with one
+  replacement, so the fix is local to each site. A fence that would need a
+  non-local rewrite ships a converter with its release instead. Before `v1.0.0` a
+  minor carries what a major would.
+- **Seeded output is promised within one version.** Any edit to a category shifts
+  its stream and everything drawn after it, so a promise across versions would
+  freeze every shipped list; a fixture is re-pinned on a bump, as this repo's own are.
+- **An error is a contract by what it names, not its bytes.** A script branches on
+  the exit code and reads the named path or spelling, so those hold; wording improves
+  in a minor.
+- **Raising the lowest supported Go is a major.** A consumer building on it breaks,
+  which is the one test every rule above applies; Go's convention of a minor is not
+  followed.
+- **A release is a Gitea release built from the changelog.** The tag alone serves
+  `go get`, but prebuilt binaries need release assets, and the body being the tag's
+  changelog section keeps one text; a tag with no heading fails the workflow
+  rather than publishing an empty release.
 - **A `--data-path` override rebinds every reference to the category it
   replaces.** References bind against the merged tree, so once shipped data uses
   `{.person}`, a consumer's `sv_SE/person.json` is what every shipped reference
@@ -779,6 +826,21 @@ docker build --build-arg GO_VERSION=1.22.12 .   # lowest supported
 GO_VERSION=1.22.12 docker compose run --rm test # the same tests, without the image build
 ```
 
+A change to the shipped data re-pins [`testdata/shipped_shape.txt`](testdata/shipped_shape.txt)
+in its own commit:
+
+```sh
+REPIN=1 docker compose run --rm --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" test
+```
+
+To release, head `CHANGELOG.md` with the version's section in place of `Unreleased`,
+merge, then tag `main`; the release workflow publishes the Gitea release with that
+section as its body:
+
+```sh
+git tag -a v0.1.0 -m v0.1.0 && git push origin v0.1.0
+```
+
 ## Layout
 
 ```
@@ -801,6 +863,8 @@ value.go        the value proof: what a typed column or calc operand holds, chec
 data.go         data loading: fs.FS folders/files -> namespace tree, multi-source merge
 cmd/fejkdata/   the fejkdata CLI
 data/           shipped data (JSON), embedded at build: locale folders + a misc folder
+release-tooling/ the Gitea release a tag publishes
+testdata/       the pinned shipped shape (see Versioning)
 ```
 
 ## License

compose.yaml

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ x-go: &go
     HOME: /cache
     GOCACHE: /cache/build
     GOMODCACHE: /cache/mod
+    REPIN: ${REPIN:-}
 
 services:
   test:

release-tooling/publish_release.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Create the Gitea release for a tag, its body the tag's CHANGELOG.md section.
+
+Env: GITEA_API_URL, GITEA_REPOSITORY (owner/repo), GITEA_TOKEN, TAG (vX.Y.Z).
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import urllib.request
+
+
+def section(changelog: str, version: str) -> str | None:
+	m = re.search(rf"^## \[{re.escape(version)}\].*?$\n(.*?)(?=^## \[|\Z)", changelog, re.M | re.S)
+	return m.group(1).strip() if m else None
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+	tag = os.environ["TAG"]
+	if not re.fullmatch(r"v\d+\.\d+\.\d+", tag):
+		print(f"{tag}: not a release tag; a release is vX.Y.Z", file=sys.stderr)
+		return 1
+	with open("CHANGELOG.md", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+		body = section(f.read(), tag[1:])
+	if body is None:
+		print(f"CHANGELOG.md has no `## [{tag[1:]}]` heading; add the section, then tag", file=sys.stderr)
+		return 1
+	req = urllib.request.Request(
+		f"{os.environ['GITEA_API_URL']}/repos/{os.environ['GITEA_REPOSITORY']}/releases",
+		data=json.dumps({"body": body, "name": tag, "tag_name": tag}).encode(),
+		headers={"Authorization": f"token {os.environ['GITEA_TOKEN']}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
+	)
+	with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
+		print(json.load(resp)["html_url"])
+	return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	sys.exit(main())

todo.md

@@ -7,24 +7,15 @@
 - Major data update. Shipped categories render as records with their building
   blocks as columns (`sv_SE.person` → `femalefirst`, `malefirst`; `misc.uuid` →
   `variant`), and `sv_SE.address` draws its postal code apart from its locality.
-  It also settles what a version promises about shipped data: its paths, its
-  record columns with their datatypes and nulls — a column of one reference alone
-  takes both, so typing a column or adding a null breaks its readers — and whether
-  a seed renders the same output across versions.
 - `email.local` and `username` share their handle lists, while their name
-  variants differ on purpose. Share the lists only if that is a clean win.
+  variants differ on purpose. Share the lists only if that is a clean win — a
+  reference between shipped categories is a major once tagged.
 
 ### Release
 
-- Versioning — semver tags, starting at `v0.1.0`; `v1.0.0` once the grammar
-  settles. From v2 the module path carries `/vN` (`go.mod`, imports, the README's
-  install lines), so fences ship batched into as few majors as possible. Reword
-  the Decision "After the first tag, a new fence is a major version" to match:
-  before `v1.0.0` a fence ships in a minor.
-- Changelog — `CHANGELOG.md`, started with `v0.1.0`; the fence Decision's
-  "changelog" links there.
-- CLI without Go — investigate prebuilt binaries: GoReleaser publishing to Gitea
-  releases, a container image, Homebrew and Scoop.
+- CLI without Go — investigate prebuilt binaries: GoReleaser attaching them to
+  the Gitea release the tag workflow publishes, a container image, Homebrew and
+  Scoop. A `--version` flag lands with them.
 - Homepage — a simple page for fejkdata with an in-browser generator: the library
   compiled to WebAssembly, so visitors generate as much data as they like in their
   own browser.