fix(updater): remove the Developer channel; document source installs for devs#84
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…for devs The "Developer" update channel selected a rolling latest-main build that CI republished on every push under the fixed `prerelease` tag. Because that release was recreated (delete+recreate) on every push, it defeated GitHub's release ordering: beta testers on builds predating the Beta channel's ROLLING_TAG exclusion (v1.21.0-beta-2 and earlier) were offered dev builds. The maintainer's decision is to remove the channel; developers track main via a source install instead of a per-commit installer rebuild. Changes: - updater.py: drop `developer` from UPDATE_CHANNELS (back to release/prerelease); remove the developer branch from pick_release. Add `developer`->`prerelease` to the channel remap map so any stored `developer` option (the maintainer's, at minimum) degrades gracefully to Beta -- it never errors and never lands on index 0 by accident. KEEP the ROLLING_TAG constant and the Beta branch's explicit rolling-tag exclusion as defense in depth (documented): it protects current clients if a rolling-style release ever reappears. - all_options.py: remove the third "Developer" radio (two radios now); the positional radio<->channel contract stays in lockstep with UPDATE_CHANNELS. - CI: remove the release-prerelease job, its concurrency group, and the rolling-release design comment block. Installers now build only for tags (dropped the `on: push: branches: [main]` trigger) -- building installers per main commit served only the removed rolling release, so it was pure waste; the pytest `tests` workflow still covers every main push, and tag/dispatch builds keep the frozen self-test coverage. - Docs: README/USER_GUIDE/CHANGELOG/WHATS_NEW back to two channels; add a developer source-install section (clone + `pip install -e .` + `git pull`, and the `PyReconstruct --update`/`--switch` CLI path) that replaces the channel. - Tests: update channel tests to the two-channel reality; keep/extend the legacy-remap (now incl. `developer`->prerelease) and rolling-tag-exclusion tests; add graceful-degradation coverage for a stored `developer` config. Full suite: 1232 passed, 5 xfailed (QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…for devs (#84) The "Developer" update channel selected a rolling latest-main build that CI republished on every push under the fixed `prerelease` tag. Because that release was recreated (delete+recreate) on every push, it defeated GitHub's release ordering: beta testers on builds predating the Beta channel's ROLLING_TAG exclusion (v1.21.0-beta-2 and earlier) were offered dev builds. The maintainer's decision is to remove the channel; developers track main via a source install instead of a per-commit installer rebuild. Changes: - updater.py: drop `developer` from UPDATE_CHANNELS (back to release/prerelease); remove the developer branch from pick_release. Add `developer`->`prerelease` to the channel remap map so any stored `developer` option (the maintainer's, at minimum) degrades gracefully to Beta -- it never errors and never lands on index 0 by accident. KEEP the ROLLING_TAG constant and the Beta branch's explicit rolling-tag exclusion as defense in depth (documented): it protects current clients if a rolling-style release ever reappears. - all_options.py: remove the third "Developer" radio (two radios now); the positional radio<->channel contract stays in lockstep with UPDATE_CHANNELS. - CI: remove the release-prerelease job, its concurrency group, and the rolling-release design comment block. Installers now build only for tags (dropped the `on: push: branches: [main]` trigger) -- building installers per main commit served only the removed rolling release, so it was pure waste; the pytest `tests` workflow still covers every main push, and tag/dispatch builds keep the frozen self-test coverage. - Docs: README/USER_GUIDE/CHANGELOG/WHATS_NEW back to two channels; add a developer source-install section (clone + `pip install -e .` + `git pull`, and the `PyReconstruct --update`/`--switch` CLI path) that replaces the channel. - Tests: update channel tests to the two-channel reality; keep/extend the legacy-remap (now incl. `developer`->prerelease) and rolling-tag-exclusion tests; add graceful-degradation coverage for a stored `developer` config. Full suite: 1232 passed, 5 xfailed (QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen).
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Field incident: beta testers on pre-#66 builds (v1.21.0-beta-2 and earlier) were offered rolling dev builds, because their updaters rely on release ordering and the rolling release's recreate-on-push made it newest. Rolling release + tag already deleted (mitigation). This removes the channel:
developerconfigs remap gracefully to Beta (dialog opens on Beta, self-heals on save; no index shifts for other options).release-prereleaseCI job removed entirely;on: push: branches: [main]dropped (the build matrix on main existed only to feed the rolling release;testsstill runs on every push, full installer coverage still runs on tags + manual dispatch).--update/--switchCLI flags (verified against cli.py). This replaces the Developer channel's purpose.Suite: 1232 passed, 5 pre-existing xfails.
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