Bonfire ground zero + FOSS posts + gitbot (2026-07-09)

Stack

Item	Value
Path	`/home/hernani/koopa-bonfire/`
Containers	`koopa-bonfire`, `koopa-bonfire-db`
Port	9021 → Caddy `bonfire.hacktivism.ch`
Image	`bonfirenetworks/bonfire:1.0.5-social-amd64`
Env	secrets 64 chars; `DB_MIGRATE_INDEXES_CONCURRENTLY=false`

Ground zero: wiped volume + dir, clean migrate (import_me 20200828094944 applied, ~109 migrations, identity tables present).

Accounts

Login	Role
`foss` / `foss@bonfire.hacktivism.ch`	FOSS posts
character `gitbot`	same account (multi-profile)

Passwords: /home/hernani/koopa-bonfire/users.env (mode 600).

Public: https://bonfire.hacktivism.ch/

FOSS posts (as @foss)

Topics: NGI0 dossiers, SM dossier, Castopod pilot, git.ngi-0.eu, four freedoms — linking https://dossiers.ngi-0.eu/ and https://git.ngi-0.eu/.

Commit mirror bot

Script: ~/koopa-bonfire/bin/gitbot-mirror.py
State: ~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot-state.json (seen SHAs)
Loop: every 300s, pidfile ~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.pid, log ~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.log
Source: Forgejo API https://git.ngi-0.eu/api/v1/repos/search + …/commits

# status
ps -p "$(cat ~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.pid)" -o pid,cmd
tail -20 ~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.log

# one-shot
python3 ~/koopa-bonfire/bin/gitbot-mirror.py

# restart loop
kill "$(cat ~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.pid)"; \
  nohup python3 ~/koopa-bonfire/bin/gitbot-mirror.py --loop >>~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.log 2>&1 & \
  echo $! >~/koopa-bonfire/gitbot.pid

Note: occasional URI.parse/1 errors on some commit messages (special chars / URLs); bot skips and retries later.

Lessons

First boot needs ≥64-byte SECRET_KEY_BASE.
Migrations: DB_MIGRATE_INDEXES_CONCURRENTLY=false on empty DB (avoids concurrent index in txn).
Partial DB → wipe volume and ground zero rather than patch half-migrated state.

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