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Work Log - 2026-06-11

🎯 Focus for Today

  • Resume oc-opsdevnz module work after 1Password CLI setup
  • Understand how to manage auth tokens for staging vs production
  • Create user stories for staging workflow
  • Test oc-opsdevnz against staging OpenCollective

✅ What Got Done

  • User story drafted — staging testing workflow for oc-opsdevnz
  • Authentication design doc — Personal Tokens vs OAuth, production readiness requirements
  • op-opsdevnz backfill — docs scaffold (specs, design, stories), zensical.toml, GitHub workflows (test, publish, SAST), dependabot, updated AGENTS.md, Python 3.12+
  • practice-template-opsdevnz — Updated Python 3.12+ in docs/index.md, replaced "Current Focus" with "Finding Current Work" section in AGENTS.md
  • octodns-metaname docs scaffold — Created docs/ directory structure (specs/, design/, stories/), zensical.toml, initial documentation files
  • octodns-metaname analysis — Analyzed upstream OctoDNS patterns, made decisions on pyproject.toml (keep), ruff (keep), 100% coverage (adopt), changelet (adopt)

🧠 Notes & Reflections

octodns-metaname: OctoDNS Patterns vs Our Template

The octodns-metaname module is different from our other modules. It's an OctoDNS provider plugin and should follow OctoDNS ecosystem patterns, not our standard OpsDev.nz template.

OctoDNS patterns (from vendor/octodns-template): - .changelog/ directory with individual changelog entries (changelet pattern) - script/ directory with bootstrap, cibuild, changelog, format, lint, test, release helpers - requirements.txt and requirements-dev.txt (pinned, generated by script/update-requirements) - Uses black + isort for formatting (not ruff) - setup.py alongside pyproject.toml - .git_hooks_pre-commit for pre-commit hooks - CI fetches Python versions from upstream octodns .ci-config.json - CHANGELOG.md auto-generated from .changelog/ entries

Current octodns-metaname status: - Uses pyproject.toml only (no setup.py) - No .changelog/ directory - Uses ruff (not black + isort) - No script/ directory - Has vcrpy for API testing (good) - Python 3.9+ support - CI tests Python 3.13, 3.14

Vendor fork status: - vendor/octodns — fork at github.com/john-opsdevnz/octodns, commit 051e7f84 (upstream main) - vendor/octodns-template — fork at github.com/john-opsdevnz/octodns-template, commit c089277 (upstream main) - Both forks appear to be in sync with upstream as of the last fetch

Decision needed: Do we adopt OctoDNS patterns for octodns-metaname, or keep our modern approach?

The OctoDNS patterns are ecosystem-standard. Provider plugins in the OctoDNS world use changelet, black/isort, and the script/ helpers. If we want octodns-metaname to be familiar to OctoDNS users and potentially contribute upstream, we should follow their patterns.

However, our modern approach (ruff, pyproject.toml only, Python 3.12+) is cleaner. The question is: do we prioritize ecosystem consistency or modern tooling?

Analysis document created in outcome-engineering/docs/discovery/octodns-metaname/template-analysis.md with three options: 1. Full OctoDNS alignment (black+isort, setup.py, all scripts) 2. Hybrid approach (recommended) - keep ruff, add changelet + key scripts 3. Minimal changes - just add changelog management

🧠 Notes & Reflections

1Password CLI and Auth Tokens

Yesterday we installed 1Password CLI on the dev VM. Today we need to authenticate and understand the token structure:

  • 1Password vault: pat-staging.opencollective.com — likely contains the OC personal access token
  • 1Password item: Service Account Auth Token: Staging OpenCollective Trial — possibly the OC API token itself
  • Staging login: john@opsdev.nz on staging.opencollective.com

The question: Do we use op to fetch the token at runtime (via OC_SECRET_REF), or do we set OC_TOKEN directly for testing?

For automation and CI/CD, OC_SECRET_REF is the right pattern. For interactive testing, OC_TOKEN is simpler.

User Stories for Staging

The stories folder in oc-opsdevnz was empty. The first story is obvious: an engineer wants to test changes on staging before applying to production. This is the dogfooding workflow — use oc-opsdevnz to manage the OpsDev.nz collective itself.

⏳ Mañana

  • Authenticate 1Password CLI (op account add or OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN)
  • Test oc-opsdevnz whoami against staging
  • Create OpsDev.nz collective on staging via YAML
  • Review production OC config and plan migration from staging
  • Add more user stories as we discover them
  • Implement Phase 2 for octodns-metaname: changelog management with changelet
  • Implement Phase 3 for octodns-metaname: 100% test coverage enforcement
  • Update octodns-metaname to Python 3.12+ for consistency with practice-template
  • Contribute PR to octodns-template: bump minimum Python from 3.9 to 3.10+ (3.9 EOL October 2025)

🔥 Token Burn

OpenCode + qwen3.7-plus

202k tokens

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