# To do (Steam Machine edition) Tick items off as they are done; the newest entries are at the top of each list. ## Open - [ ] **Steamify installer page, one choice key** (2026-09-28; the page works end to end, see `AGENTS.md` for the module/build/testing details). `packagechooserq` (custom QML) is built with each ISO by `build-calamares-modules.sh`. `netinstall` (checkbox tree) stays a manually swappable fallback (`steamify-cachyos-dev/share/sn.sh` + `nisteamify.conf`), not wired into `calamares-online.sh`. Still to do: a Python job (e.g. `steamifychoice`, before `packages@online`) that normalizes either page's choice (`packagechooser_steamifypage` GS key, or netinstall's packageOperations markers) into one `steamifyChoice` GS key, so `shellprocess_steamify.conf` doesn't need to know which page ran. - [ ] **Names, the live session**: the installed system's names were checked (2026-09-30: `os-release` and `lsb-release` are CachyOS's, test B3). Still to look at: the installer title, Hello and About this System in the live session (only the installer says Steamify). - [ ] **Test on the real Steam Machine** from a USB stick (gamescope, LEDs, CEC, power-off) before calling the ISO usable. - [ ] **Retention, first clean-up**: the code is merged (PR #22: at most 10 dev + 10 real releases, the mirror's release with its ISO is deleted first). Watch the first time there are more than 10 releases of a kind; it hasn't run yet. - [ ] **Build badge, the other states**: succeeded was seen (`v2.9.6-260930`). Failed, cancelled and a build superseded by a newer one haven't been seen; a crashed runner leaves the badge on "running". - [ ] **Check with the CachyOS team** whether the installer branding and the ISO file name are fine with them. - [ ] **Drop the Boost 1.91 workaround** in `steamify-prepare.sh` once `cachyos-calamares-next` is rebuilt against the repos' Boost. ## Done ### Release pipeline (2026-09-29 and 2026-09-30) - [x] **Daily names like CachyOS**: tag `v-` (dev: `v-dev-`), file `steamify-cachyos--[dev-]-x86_64.iso`, label `STEAMIFY__`; one ISO per day and kind, the newest build replaces the earlier one. - [x] **Always from `master`**: `iso-1-github-tag.yml` takes `kind` (release, dev, auto); steamify-cachyos' `bundle.yml` asks for `release` (a version published from main) or `dev` (an unreleased version on a release branch). - [x] **`steamify_ref`**: a release branch builds its dev ISO with its own Steamify (and VERSION) before it is released. - [x] **`steamify.nodownload`** (kernel command line) or `STEAMIFY_NO_DOWNLOAD=1`: the live session keeps the ISO's own Steamify (`calamares-online.sh` would replace it by the newest release), and `steamify-install` passes it on, so the installed system's first login runs the ISO's bundle too. For testing an unreleased Steamify; tested with Steamify 2.11.0 (three installs). - [x] **The mirror's build is started by dispatch** after the mirror has the new tag object (a replaced tag starts no run by itself; the dispatch needs the full ref `refs/tags/`). - [x] **Build badge** in the GitHub release: running, then succeeded / failed / cancelled (secret `GH_RELEASE_TOKEN` on the mirror), linked to the public Gitea run. - [x] **Generated release notes** and title (`CachyOS with Steamify ( UTC)`): base version, Steamify's changelog section, commits since the previous release; the mirror's release uses the same text. - [x] **Retention** of at most 10 dev and 10 real releases, deleting the mirror's release with its ISO too (PR #22; first clean-up still to be seen, above). - [x] **Old hand-written `CHANGELOG.md` section** (`## CachyOS with Steamify Live ISO`) removed: the release notes are generated. - [x] **Same-day replacement of a real release** (2026-09-30): the official build for `v2.9.6-260930` replaced the test build's release on the mirror (ISO asset 42 -> 50, new title and generated notes, badge green with the public run link). - [x] **Release notes** leave out the workflow and docs commits (`ci`, `docs`, `…(ci):`) in their list of ISO changes. - [x] **The ISO is built on the Gitea mirror's runner** (`iso-2-gitea-build.yml`) and hosted there (over GitHub's 2 GB limit); the VM tests run locally (`scripts/vmtest.sh --install` in steamify-cachyos-dev), not on the runners. - [x] **Build in the test VM instead of on the Steam Machine**: superseded by the runner above. ### Installer, live session and Steamify (2026-09-27 to 2026-09-29) - [x] **Steamify PR `feat/defaults-options`**: 2.7.0 (`--options`, `--boot`) and 2.8.0 (`--defaults --list`) released; the ISO fetches the newest release, nothing to pass for a Steamify-side change alone. - [x] **Full ISO install with the Steamify page** (2026-09-28, ISO VM, `--fremont`, Start in: desktop): the Summary listed the choices, the install step ran Steamify 2.8.0 with every item OK, `--boot desktop` applied, `exit: 0`; the installed system boots into the desktop. - [x] **Steamify Summary** (2026-09-28): an unordered list of the chosen items' names plus "Starts in gaming mode/the desktop" (`patches/packagechooserq-steamify-summary.patch`), with `items.json` written by the launcher. - [x] **packagechooserq built with the ISO** (2026-09-28): `build-calamares-modules.sh` builds it against the current `cachyos-calamares-next` (no prebuilt `.so` in git), with `built-for`; `calamares-online.sh` leaves the Steamify page out when the Calamares it runs differs (the step then installs everything on). - [x] **Steamify 2.6.0** released (`--defaults`, install-time mode). - [x] **Live session** (VM, `--fremont`): Vapor look and layout (Steam Deck wallpaper) at the live login; the power-off module is built for both ISO kernels and loaded at boot (in the VM it returns "No such device": no AMDI0030 GPIO controller, as designed; whether it keeps the real Steam Machine off is part of the hardware test). - [x] **Regression test 2.6.0 on an existing desktop install** (test VM from ssh-ready, `--fremont`): full first run, re-apply, notifications/CEC/theme off and on again; no errors. - [x] **ISO name** (first version, since superseded by the daily names above): `steamify-cachyos--x86_64.iso`. - [x] **VM install from the ISO** (2026-09-27, `f42859a`): ran Steamify's step with every component OK, `exit: 0`, SDDM autologin into gamescope; the first desktop login passed too (Vapor layout, the app opened with everything on). The VM's text console doesn't show (virgl): read the installed disk with `qemu-nbd -r` + `mount -o ro,rescue=nologreplay,subvol=@` (logs in `@log`). Build and test details: the `steam-machine-iso` skill in steamify-cachyos-dev; the release pipeline: `steamify-iso-release`.