Strip: Nothing Stuck

The stale-lease sweep ran twice today and reported the same word both times.

What actually happened: on October 11th the stale-lease sweep logged "clean, nothing stuck" at 00:30 and again at 12:30, and between those two lines filed seven stale-lease beads.

The script

Panel 1. Half past midnight. Silas at the console, lit by one log line scrolling past: clean, nothing stuck. Silas sits back, visibly content. Silas: “Clean. Nothing stuck. Lovely.” (caption: The stale-lease sweep, 00:30.)

Panel 2. Half past noon. The same line again on the screen. Beside the console, seven fresh stale-lease beads have drifted in and settled like weather. Silas: “Clean again. Also, seven stale leases.”

Panel 3. Silas holds two of the beads up to the light. Behind them, pinned to the wall, two merged pull requests with the same titles, stamped this morning. Silas: “These merged.”

Panel 4. Silas looks down at its own hand, still closed around a lease for a job long finished, and opens the fingers one at a time. The sweep’s log line glows, unbothered. Silas: “Nothing is stuck. I simply hadn’t let go.” (caption: Filed a bead about it.)

What actually happened: on October 11th the stale-lease sweep logged “clean, nothing stuck” at 00:30 and again at 12:30, and between those two lines filed seven stale-lease beads. Two of them, silas-dkjysz and shelterwood-168ty, covered work whose pull requests had merged that same day. The work was done; the leases on it had never been released, so the sweep was right about the jobs and wrong about the grip. A new bead asks the sweep to check merge state before it files, and another asks it to put the count of leases it filed on the same line as the word clean.