Festipod now follows the local convention of welcometomyplace, mutual-aid.app
and portejunes: one fixed port pair per app (Festipod defaults: backend 3005,
app 4005; pod provider 3000/5000), overridable in backend/.env and .env.
`make start` runs docker-compose-dev.yml (the local pod provider from images,
Fuseki, Redis, mailcatcher, Arena); the backend and the app run outside Docker
with `cd backend && pnpm dev` and `pnpm dev`. pnpm stays the package manager.
The old docker-compose.yml, which containerized Festipod's own frontend and
backend and could not reach the host's Fuseki and Redis, is gone; portless is
dropped from the dev script, since the backend declares a single OIDC redirect
URI. The local backend runs without a Redis cache, as the sibling apps do. The
e2e suites and validate read the app, backend and pod provider URLs from the
env files instead of hardcoding them.
The deployment and local cookbook leaves record the traps met while resetting
datasets: a dataset re-created under the same name needs a Fuseki restart
(ClosedException otherwise), the anonymous WebACL probe at boot is expected,
and a change of the backend's URL leaves persistent accounts with a
participations collection the new app identity cannot control.
Participation privacy (decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism):
a sign-up is a private Join naming the meeting point, addressed to nobody,
handled by the backend on emission. Attendee lists hold member URNs hashed
from (WebID, event, a secret kept in the participant's profile), so counts
stay public and only contacts recognise anyone; the creator has no read
right and is notified anonymously. Each person's participations collection,
created by the backend at the first sign-up, is readable by their /contacts
WAC group only, never world-readable. The member URN is sticky per
(meeting point, participant) and every collection write is verified by
reading back, so a refused write leaves the act unrecorded and retryable.
The EventRef mechanism and its browser-side provisioning are gone.
The backend now runs with WebACL on, as the reference apps do, on its own
secure datasets festipod / settings-festipod instead of the pod provider's
settings dataset; pod-notifications needs it. The compose header and the
deployment leaf say how to reset a stack whose datasets predate this.
The rights matrix covers the new mechanism live (148 hard lines), including
a forged contact Accept between throwaway accounts: the stranger enters the
contacts list (platform defect, reported upstream) but is refused the profile
and the participations. Tests may attack as long as they never break the dev
environment (rule_tests-never-break-the-dev-environment).
Also lands the coherence-pass work that was still uncommitted: contacts as
the Pod's social graph and invite links, image upload to the Pod, the
meeting-point form, profile completion gate, and the doctrine for them.
Superseded briefs and decisions are deleted rather than annotated.
e2e-login-flow and e2e-revocation now share the matrix's driveLogin, which counts a sign-in only once the app is really reached and the app install is asserted; their own loops could report "shell reached" while still on the picker page. The rights matrix gains a public-surface group (allow-listed endpoints answer 200, non-public paths 404, status codes only) and a visibility group (an event with a meeting point and a participant switched public and private by its owner: event, meeting point, attendees collection and catalog listing follow). validate.ts probes the stack and runs test:e2e-rights and test:e2e-revocation as layers, reported SKIPPED when the stack is down and never counted as passed.
Three fresh users plus an anonymous reader, on the live local stack: login, consent and app install are driven through the UI and asserted at setup; reads, refused writes, profile privacy, discovery, opening a foreign event, join and leave with their counts, isolation of each user's own pod, and catalog listing are each a named line with expected and actual, printed as a report. The exit code is non-zero iff a hard line fails. Known platform behaviours (attendee lists world-readable, an anonymous PATCH accepted on attendees collections) are tracked as non-fatal lines that flag a change; paths that need a crafted request are recorded as manual checks.
Sylvain Duchesne