nordisk/dwarves

dwarves — design

dwarves is the CI/CD forge of the nordisk constellation. Named for Brokkr and Sindri, the dwarf-smiths of Norse myth who forged the gods' treasures (Mjölnir, Gullinbursti, Draupnir) at the bellows.

Charter

• Pure Rust, zero shell. Every pipeline is an xtask command — no YAML, no bash, no hidden CI DSL. The forge is ordinary Rust you can build, test and step through.

  • The xtask demo-wasm / deploy-pages verbs (build the dwarves-gui release wasm into dist/, then force-push it to the pages branch → https://nordisk.codeberg.page/dwarves) are now a thin dwarves-specific PagesConfig over the shared nornir-pages edda leaf (LAW #5 / DRY). The ~457-LOC inline demo.rs copy — the gh-pages flow that four repos (nornir/holger/dwarves/facett) had each grown near-byte-identically — is deleted; only the dwarves knobs (demo crate, canvas id, __dwarves_state hook, title/description, remote env, commit label) stay here. The served page is unchanged (same cache-busted index.html, same .domains/.nojekyll), now emitted from the leaf's canonical template.

• Two bindings, tightly held:

  • Nornir — handling code's time-space dimensional warehouse of the constellation (Iceberg + code/warehouse introspection across versions and time). Dwarves orchestrates it and consumes Nornir's warehouse introspection + release cascade.
  • Holger — the artifact registry, the sleeping Dane guarding your artifacts at rest. Dwarves forges into Holger (publishes artifacts) and pulls from it (dependencies, offline/airgap-capable).

Contents

The smith crates move here as the forge grows:

• Brokkr — the smith at the bellows: assembles, signs and packs release artifacts.
• Sindri — the smith at the anvil: the pipeline definitions that shape a build into a shippable thing.

Why a separate repo

Keeping the CI/CD logic as its own versioned, testable Rust workspace decouples it from any single member's release cascade — the forge evolves on its own cadence, and every pipeline is a unit-testable function rather than an opaque CI script.

Docs

This .nornir/ is the source of the repo's README and docs (crisp holger-pattern): design.md (this file) · guide.md (usage) · for-idiots.md (the beginner walk-through).