Beta roadmap to v0.1.0

What is supported today, and the milestones between the current beta and the v0.1.0 release.

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kinhin is in beta (v0.0.1-beta-3).

The beta supports GitHub, Gitea, Forgejo and GitLab CE; Buildkite, Azure Pipelines and Bitbucket Pipelines follow in later betas. Milestones are ordered by what has to be true, not by date.

Where we are

Area	State
GitHub Actions	Supported; live-tested on Tart macOS VMs and apple/container
Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab CE	Supported; live-tested on every runtime by the end-to-end suite
Runtimes: Tart macOS and Linux VMs, apple/container, Docker, host mode	Live-tested
Buildkite, Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines	Planned (implemented and unit-tested, not supported yet)
ThreadSanitizer	Clean (scripts/tsan.sh)
Long-running soak test	Not done
In-app updater	Ships in beta-3; not yet exercised by a published release updating itself (needs the next release)
Telemetry	None

Milestones

beta-1: first public beta

• GitHub, Gitea, Forgejo and GitLab CE supported. Gitea, Forgejo and GitLab CE live-tested on every runtime; GitHub on Tart macOS VMs and apple/container.
• Menu bar app, CLI and LaunchAgent daemon released, signed and notarized.
• Docs, forge reference and the forge-report issue template published.

beta-2: hardening the supported forges

• Fixes from beta testers' real projects.
• The GitHub lane of the end-to-end suite running against a throwaway repository.
• The e2e suite running nightly on a dedicated Mac.
• Exercise the in-app updater against a published release.

Exit: no open bugs that lose a job or leak a runner on a supported forge.

beta-3: updater, restart safety and localization (current)

• The in-app updater installs updates itself (Sparkle, EdDSA-signed feed).
• A restart no longer registers a VM again while its runner is still on the forge.
• Ollama as a healing advisor, camera and karaoke captions for videos, and the app in seven more languages.
• Azure Pipelines labeled experimental.

beta-4: more forges

• Buildkite, Azure Pipelines and Bitbucket Pipelines run against real accounts in the end-to-end suite, and become supported one by one as they pass.
• Multi-account and mixed-forge fleets on one shared pool.
• Register the dedicated kinhin-e2e Mac, run the GitHub lane, and turn on the nightly end-to-end run.

Exit: every forge the docs call supported is live-tested; the rest are clearly labeled planned.

rc: hardening

• ThreadSanitizer still clean (scripts/tsan.sh).
• Long-running soak test: scaling up and down, crash and restart recovery, no leaked VMs, containers or registered runners.
• Troubleshooting and security known limits reviewed against what beta testers hit.
• Docs read-through against the shipped CLI and app.

Exit: no open data-loss, leaked-credential or leaked-runner bugs.

v0.1.0: full release

• All the exit criteria above are met.
• Signed, notarized release with a working updater path from the last beta.
• Docs snapshot published under the version picker.

How to help

Run kinhin on your own projects with a supported forge, then open a forge report saying whether it worked.