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DanConwayDev 96cb60501a feat(nip34): require reciprocal announcements before maintainer state is authorized
Follow the reciprocal membership rule from the refined NIP-34 maintainers
model (nips 781590b): a pubkey listed as a maintainer is only *invited*
until its own announcement for the same identifier lists back an existing
confirmed maintainer. State events from invited maintainers are no longer
authorized; previously any pubkey reachable through recursive `maintainers`
expansion was authorized without ever acknowledging the role.

compute_membership replaces get_maintainers_recursive as the single
membership computation: a fixpoint over announcements that confirms a
listed pubkey once their own announcement lists back a confirmed
maintainer. The owner is always a confirmed maintainer of their own
repository, since announcing a repository in their namespace is what
creates it on this service. collect_authorized_maintainers keeps its
signature so all state-authorization call sites pick up the new semantics
unchanged.

Invited maintainers' announcements are deliberately still fetched,
accepted (maintainer exception) and walked by the sync dependency
machinery - the reciprocal announcement is exactly how the relay notices
an invitation was accepted. To complete that flow, an acceptance stored
via the maintainer exception is now pre-saved and stored state events are
re-applied (new reapply_stored flag on process_state_event) so the newly
confirmed maintainer's latest state re-points the owner's repository
without another push; without this the stored state short-circuited as a
duplicate and the invitation flow stalled.

Remove the dead pre-membership helpers (AuthorizationContext,
find_latest_state_for_announcement, find_latest_authorized_state,
is_latest_state) that encoded the superseded semantics and had no other
callers. Tests updated: invited state is rejected until acceptance
(tests/state_authorization.rs), the invitation sync test now asserts the
owner's refs are withheld until the invitee accepts, and grasp-audit
maintainer fixtures publish reciprocal announcements.

Scope deliberately excluded: the indexed `M`/`m` role tags and the
moderator role from nips 986edd1 land in follow-up commits; this commit
changes membership semantics for the deprecated `maintainers` tag only.

Validation: git::authorization unit tests, state_authorization suite,
sync invitation tests and grasp-audit lib tests all pass.
2026-08-19 11:29:30 +00:00
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ngit-grasp Documentation

Welcome to the ngit-grasp documentation! We use the Diátaxis framework to organize our documentation into four types, each serving a different purpose.

                    PRACTICAL          THEORETICAL
                    ─────────          ───────────
                    
LEARNING      │   Tutorials    │    Explanation   │
              │                │                  │
              │  Getting       │   Architecture   │
              │  Started       │   Decisions      │
              │                │                  │
              ├────────────────┼──────────────────┤
              │                │                  │
WORKING       │  How-To        │    Reference     │
              │  Guides        │                  │
              │                │   API Docs       │
              │  Deployment    │   Protocols      │
              │  Testing       │                  │
              │                │                  │

📚 Documentation Types

🎓 Tutorials - Learning by Doing

Purpose: Learn the basics through practical steps
For: Newcomers getting started
Style: Step-by-step lessons with guaranteed outcomes

🔧 How-To Guides - Solving Problems

Purpose: Accomplish specific tasks
For: Users with basic knowledge solving real problems
Style: Practical recipes and solutions

📖 Reference - Technical Information

Purpose: Look up technical details
For: Users who know what they're looking for
Style: Dry, factual, comprehensive

💡 Explanation - Understanding Concepts

Purpose: Understand the "why" and design decisions
For: Users wanting deeper understanding
Style: Discussion, context, alternatives


🚀 Quick Start Paths

I'm brand new to ngit-grasp

  1. Read README.md for project overview
  2. Follow Getting Started Tutorial
  3. Understand Architecture Overview

I want to deploy ngit-grasp

  1. Review Configuration Reference
  2. Follow Deployment How-To
  3. Set up monitoring and backups

I want to develop on ngit-grasp

  1. Follow Getting Started Tutorial
  2. Read Architecture Overview
  3. Check Nix Flakes How-To
  4. Review Test Strategy

I want to understand the design

  1. Read Inline Authorization Explanation
  2. Review Design Decisions
  3. Compare with ngit-relay Comparison

I'm looking for specific information


📂 Additional Resources

Archive

Historical session notes and completed work. Useful for understanding project evolution but not required reading.

Learnings

DEPRECATED - Being migrated to Diátaxis structure:

  • Gotchas → How-To Guides
  • Patterns → Reference or Explanation
  • Notes → Appropriate category

🤝 Contributing to Documentation

When adding documentation, ask yourself:

Is it a tutorial?

  • Does it teach a beginner?
  • Is it a complete lesson with guaranteed outcome?
  • → Add to tutorials/

Is it a how-to guide?

  • Does it solve a specific problem?
  • Is it a recipe for accomplishing a task?
  • → Add to how-to/

Is it reference material?

  • Is it technical information?
  • Will people look it up when needed?
  • → Add to reference/

Is it explanation?

  • Does it explain "why"?
  • Does it discuss alternatives or design?
  • → Add to explanation/

See Diátaxis documentation for more guidance.


📊 Project Status

ALPHA - Under active development. Core functionality working, API may change.

Completed

  • ✅ grasp-audit compliance testing tool
  • ✅ Nix flake development environment
  • ✅ nostr-sdk 0.43 upgrade
  • ✅ Documentation restructure (Diátaxis)

In Progress

  • 🔄 Core ngit-grasp server implementation
  • 🔄 GRASP-01 compliance

Planned

  • 🔜 GRASP-02 (Proactive Sync)
  • 🔜 GRASP-05 (Archive)


Documentation structure based on Diátaxis
Last updated: November 4, 2025