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Who Need Help — implementation verification

Observed through 2026-07-19 in the local workspace. This report separates observed results from product limits and unknown production properties.

Verified MVP capabilities

Requirement Status Observed evidence Limit
Urgent medicine-help flow Implemented and tested Request creation, discovery, matching, start, handover, two-party completion, and review rules are covered by the Phoenix test suite and exercised in the local UI. The product coordinates pickup of an already purchased or reserved legal item; it is not a pharmacy, medical, or emergency service.
Urgent roadside help Implemented and tested Fuel, car wheel, bicycle, motorcycle, vehicle-breakdown, and secured-incident categories are seeded as a translated hierarchy. Server and LiveView tests exercise category paths, required fields, allowed values, boolean normalization, unknown-field rejection, and request creation. Roadside requests require no immediate danger; this is not emergency response or professional recovery.
Extensible categories Implemented and tested Categories and validated text/select/boolean fields are stored in PostgreSQL. Proposal, vote, approve, reject, and merge paths have automated tests. Coffee, cinema, hiking, and other social activities remain separate from urgent-help safety and ranking rules.
Separate Activity mode Implemented and tested Coffee, cinema, walk, and hiking categories use a separate activity lifecycle. Domain and two-client LiveView tests cover creation, join request, organizer approval, capacity enforcement, public/pending/chat privacy, exact-location disclosure to approved users, group chat, blocking, completion, and zero impact on helper reputation. Activity and message reports expose only the linked group conversation to an audited moderator; moderators can hide and restore reported activities. This does not guarantee participant identity or physical safety.
Map and discovery Implemented and browser-verified The committed isolated Chromium suite rendered request and Activity maps, waited for MapLibre idle, and completed with no console, page, or request failures against a local PNG raster fixture. An earlier headed session rendered the configured OpenStreetMap tiles. A production operator must configure a tile provider appropriate for its policy and traffic.
Private matched chat Implemented and cross-client verified A message sent from the helper browser appeared in the requester's browser without reload. An earlier Android emulator run also sent a message that appeared in the requester browser in real time. There is no unsolicited general-purpose inbox.
Consent-driven live tracking Implemented and cross-client verified On API 37, Android started TrackingService as a location foreground service with a persistent Stop notification. After Home minimized the Activity, an emulator coordinate change reached PostGIS. Notification Stop removed the service, notification, active session, and raw position. Browsers stop with the page. Android has no ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION, unattended start, or route history.
Privacy settings Implemented and browser-verified The profile exposed hidden, approximate public, exact for active match, and explicit exact-public options. Blocking and current-position cleanup have automated tests. Exact public location remains a user opt-in; legal privacy and retention text still requires jurisdiction-specific review before launch.
Reputation and anti-abuse Implemented at MVP level Handover codes, two-party completion, double-blind reviews, unique-counterpart ranking, optional movement/proximity evidence, reports, blocks, abuse signals, and moderator audit paths have automated tests. The system is not bot-proof and does not claim identity verification. No punitive numeric policy is enabled without measured and approved thresholds.
Social profiles Manual links implemented; optional GitHub verification implemented and automated-tested Manual links cannot set verification fields. The optional GitHub flow uses state, PKCE, a user-bound one-time session, unique provider ownership, and an audit record; the final 172-test suite includes callback replay/state checks. The local protocol drill also performs real HTTP token/user exchanges without returning an access token to the application. GitHub OAuth credentials are intentionally absent and are not required for registration or the help flow. The real external provider redirect/callback remains disabled and unverified; other providers remain manual/unverified.
Voluntary thanks Implemented as an external optional link A helper can expose an optional link after completion; the UI states that the platform does not process the payment. The platform does not provide payments, escrow, refunds, tax reporting, or payment guarantees.
Android client Local and public-staging clients implemented and emulator-verified The native packages org.whoneedhelp.mobile.debug and org.whoneedhelp.mobile.staging launch the same authenticated LiveView app. Six lifecycle, permission, deep-link, foreground tracking, network-failure, notification-Stop, and Activity-destruction tests passed on each of API 30, 34, and 37. The API 37 staging smoke loaded the public home and Safety routes over HTTPS with zero observed load/TLS errors. Production signing, Play Store publication, verified Android App Links, unattended/background-permission tracking, and iOS are not implemented.
Multiple web/worker instances Implemented and locally failure/rollout-verified The final isolated Compose drill passed BEAM crashes and sequential replacement with 3 web/2 worker replicas: all five nodes joined, PubSub passed, and 744/744 readiness requests succeeded. The project-owned kind cluster replaced all 2 web/2 worker pod UIDs under maxUnavailable=0; all four replacement pods joined, PubSub passed, and 363/363 samples ultimately succeeded. Local PostGIS is a single instance. Production database HA, backups, and recovery are operator work and are not claimed complete.
Local observability Implemented and protocol-verified Pinned Prometheus scraped all 3 direct load web targets with a file Bearer credential; Grafana provisioned a healthy datasource and four-panel dashboard; Alertmanager delivered firing and resolved webhooks for an induced scoped replica stop. Local delivery does not establish production retention, notification-provider reliability, on-call policy, or measured alert thresholds.
Encrypted local backup Implemented and failure-verified Pinned Restic streamed PostgreSQL custom format into pinned local MinIO with no host plaintext dump, passed full-data checking and a fresh-database restore, rejected a corrupted repository, and published no snapshot for an interrupted upload. The one-run MinIO project and volume were removed after retaining the non-secret evidence. The drill proves the local mechanism, not off-site durability, database HA, or a production RPO/RTO/retention policy.
External protocol boundaries Implemented and locally failure-verified The production release used its configured Assent/Req and Swoosh/gen_smtp clients against an internal-only mock; OAuth and SMTP success/rejection/retry/replay/timeout paths passed. The HTTP push boundary passed disabled, retry, rejection, timeout, and idempotency paths. Request acceptance and new-chat transactions created durable jobs processed by two Oban worker replicas; the chat event completed on Oban attempt 2 after an injected temporary failure. This does not verify external provider availability or device delivery. FCM/APNs token registration and provider selection remain external work; SMTP exactly-once delivery is not claimed.

Reproducible checks

  • The isolated Phoenix suite completed on 2026-07-19 with 172 tests and 0 failures after cursor pagination, database aggregation, and the full localization changes on Elixir 1.20.2 and Erlang/OTP 29.0.3.
  • mix compile --force --warnings-as-errors and mix format --check-formatted: passed against the same final source.
  • ./scripts/quality.sh passed ShellCheck 0.11.0, Hadolint 2.14.0 at warning threshold, actionlint 1.7.12, every configured Compose profile render, Helm lint, Trivy source/rendered-manifest scanning, xref, Credo high-priority checks, Sobelow strict/private checks, Hex audit, 172 Phoenix tests, both npm audits, and the backup/MinIO/mc/external-mock/release-image vulnerability scans. The rendered Helm manifest reported zero HIGH/CRITICAL misconfigurations; the Alpine backup, MinIO, mc, and external-mock images and the Debian 13.6 release image each reported zero HIGH/CRITICAL vulnerabilities under the configured gates. The backup binary reported Restic 0.19.1 compiled with Go 1.26.5; MinIO and mc reported their pinned commits and Go 1.26.5.
  • Dialyzer passed with three path- and warning-specific documented filters and zero unused filters. Two findings are opaque-type warnings at Ecto Multi/MapSet call sites; the third is the generated Gettext backend's three-form plural-rule opaque-value warning; the filters are visible in .dialyzer_ignore.exs rather than hidden by a broad pattern. This is not a claim that third-party dependency compilation is warning-free.
  • The generated Activity migration was rolled back by exactly one step and migrated forward again against who_need_help_test; both directions passed.
  • The Activity-report migration was also rolled back and migrated forward. The observed database constraint changed from exactly one of 3 urgent-help targets to exactly one of 5 urgent-help/Activity targets.
  • mix format --check-formatted: passed in the final run.
  • Android local Docker build targets testDebugUnitTest, lintDebug, assembleDebug, and assembleDebugAndroidTest passed. The isolated runners then passed 6/6 instrumentation tests on API 30, API 34, and API 37. The sixth test verifies that the foreground service survives Home plus Activity destruction and remains user-stoppable. The public-staging target passed unit tests, lintStaging, and assembleStaging; the API 37 staging smoke loaded / and /safety from the temporary HTTPS origin with no observed load/TLS errors. Evidence is retained at output/android-instrumentation/api30/20260719162757-2877617, output/android-instrumentation/api34/20260719163525-3053597, output/android-instrumentation/api37-0/20260719164309-3237374, and output/android-staging-smoke/20260719171121-3924350.
  • Release Android guard: a staging/release build with a non-HTTPS WNH_BASE_URL failed at its dedicated preflight; the successful staging build used the explicit temporary HTTPS origin.
  • Helm lint, template rendering, server-side dry-run, rollout waits, readiness checks, and cross-node PubSub verification passed in the local kind cluster.
  • The hardened kind rollout then ran PostGIS as UID/GID 70 and Mailpit as UID/GID 10001. Both used read-only root filesystems, dropped all Linux capabilities, disabled privilege escalation, and used RuntimeDefault seccomp. Both web and both worker replicas were Ready; their migration-wait init containers also used read-only root filesystems and dropped capabilities. The cross-node probe observed all four BEAM nodes, and live/readiness returned ok/ready. Database counts remained 0 users / 0 help requests.
  • The final isolated Compose resilience drill observed a restart count increase for one crashed web and worker BEAM process, replaced every replica sequentially, observed all 5 cluster nodes, passed PubSub, and completed a real Oban retry on attempt 2 after one recorded error. Its exact job row and all fixture domain rows were absent afterward; all 744 readiness samples succeeded.
  • The final reproducible kind rolling drill replaced all four pod UIDs, observed all 4 BEAM nodes, passed PubSub, and left the database-count diff empty. All 363 readiness samples ultimately returned 200; two samples needed one reconnect attempt each during local single-node NodePort endpoint replacement.
  • The final local observability drill matched all 3 generated/active Prometheus instance targets, checked the provisioned Grafana datasource and four-panel dashboard, received firing and resolved Alertmanager webhooks for the exact stopped/recovered web replica, restored every target to up, and left the application-table count diff empty. Its retained evidence contains neither the metrics token nor the random Grafana password. Final evidence is retained at output/observability/final-observability-current-20260719.
  • The observability stop command changed only the four scoped monitoring container states. All app/database/worker container IDs stayed unchanged and running, and the checked user/request/message counts were identical before and after. A subsequent full drill returned all monitoring services to healthy.
  • The final encrypted S3 drill restored 23 public application tables, all 10 current migrations, 14 categories, and PostGIS 3.6.4 into a fresh temporary database. restic check --read-data passed before cleanup. Flipping the first byte of an isolated cloned repository made both check and dump exit nonzero. Stopping the exact backup container after uploaded encrypted objects produced exit 130 and zero snapshots; Restic identified and pruned 32.809 MiB of unreferenced packs, then passed a second full-data check. The source database count diff was empty and no configured secret appeared in retained evidence. The scoped MinIO project, repository volume, and runtime directories were subsequently removed; the evidence remains at output/backups-s3/final-backup-current-20260719.
  • The latest external-boundary drill passed real client-side OAuth token and user HTTP exchanges, PKCE/state checks, provider denial, one-time-code replay, a fresh flow after a temporary token error, and timeout failure. It also passed SMTP acceptance, permanent rejection without retry, one retry after a temporary greeting, timeout, and repeated submission. The push checks passed the disabled adapter, rejection, HTTP retry, replay and ambiguous-timeout deduplication, then created real acceptance/chat events against an ephemeral PostGIS database. Two worker replicas processed them; acceptance completed on attempt 1, chat completed on Oban attempt 2 after a temporary provider failure, replay never reached HTTP, and the chat text was absent from the payload. Every retained file is mode 0600, no generated credential was retained, no host port was published, and the exact project, volume, network, and one-run images were absent after cleanup. Evidence is retained at output/external-boundaries/final-boundaries-20260719.
  • The committed browser suite passed its 1/1 bootstrap and all 27/27 scenarios: 9 each in Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, against a fresh PostGIS volume with two web and two worker replicas on 2026-07-19. The retained successful-run artifact directory is output/e2e/20260719162432-2790071. It covered axe checks across four pages and two themes, keyboard navigation, three responsive widths, Activity/moderation/privacy, the two-user medicine handover and blind reviews, public boundaries, local raster maps, and an offline LiveSocket transport failure/reconnect. Each browser also recovered active chat and tracking after its serving BEAM node stopped. It verified persistent Russian/Ukrainian public language selection and the selected Ukrainian locale inside an authenticated LiveView. The uniquely named Compose volume and networks were removed.
  • The default localization domain contains 508 current messages and the errors domain contains 40. Russian and Ukrainian catalogs have no empty or fuzzy current entries. Category names, descriptions, structured-field labels and select/boolean values use locale maps with an English fallback; the compatibility description column remains as a fallback for pre-existing categories.
  • The isolated database-scale harness migrated an empty PostgreSQL 18.4 database to the exact pre-index version, seeded the configured canonical sample, captured JSON EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) plans before and after the generated cursor-index migration, and removed its project and volume. The final 50,000-row-per-large-table run selected every asserted cursor index; two consecutive request pages matched the first 50 ordered rows with no gap or duplicate. Exact observations and their non-SLO limitations are recorded in docs/performance.md.
  • Browser verification used the required headed Chrome wrapper. The final public homepage rendered its account/language controls, urgent-medicine hero, help steps, Safety link, and three language choices. The browser reported zero console errors or warnings; the document, fingerprinted CSS/JS, and logo requests all returned HTTP 200. The browser was left open.

Local generated evidence (ignored by Git):

  • output/playwright/final-request-map-chat.png
  • output/playwright/final-privacy-profile.png
  • output/android/final-image-smoke.png
  • output/android/foreground-notification.png
  • output/android/staging-deep-link-safety.png
  • output/android-instrumentation/20260719053610-2122819/results.txt
  • output/e2e/20260719053436-2083768/

Android artifact:

  • android/dist/who-need-help-debug.apk
  • SHA-256: 4520aa0b50eaf53bb7052e7f4c096a73d456f45781380187586c79d7267c21c5
  • android/dist-staging/who-need-help-staging.apk
  • SHA-256: 08d990a9268a382052be5f2d3ba5afba2aa65a9ad5f9ae1ad4bff720f8999a6e
  • Observed staging manifest values: package org.whoneedhelp.mobile.staging, version 0.1.0-staging, minimum SDK 24, target and compile SDK 37, cleartext traffic disabled, singleTop MainActivity, and an exact HTTPS host of whoneedhelp.imalto.site.
  • apksigner verify accepted the staging artifact's v2 generic debug signature. That signing identity is only for installable staging verification and is not a production release identity.

Configuration finding

WNH_DEBUG_BASE_URL is a required Android build input, because the trusted same-origin value is compiled into the debug APK. Its concrete local value is read from the repository's ignored .env by scripts/android-build.sh and is passed to Docker with --build-arg. android/Dockerfile only declares ARG WNH_DEBUG_BASE_URL; it contains no URL default.

The example http://10.0.2.2:4010 remains only as unit-test data for origin matching. It is not a runtime or build default. The ignored .env is also excluded from the root Docker build context.

Database observations

The post-roadside local Compose observation found 2 users, 1 help request, 7 messages, and 1 assignment before and after deployment. Category seeding changed only the category count from 1 to 9: 7 selectable categories and 2 inactive grouping nodes. These are local scenario data; the database is not assumed empty.

The Activity migration then preserved those same user/help/message/assignment counts, added empty activities, activity_participants, and activity_messages tables, and expanded the category tree to 14 rows: 9 help rows and 5 Activity rows. A validated custom-format dump was created immediately before that migration at output/backups/compose-before-activity-20260718-203930.dump; this ignored local artifact is not a substitute for the still-required isolated restore drill.

The final kind observation found 0 users, 0 help requests, and 0 messages. That state was queried before changing the database workload. The migration from the old emptyDir Deployment created a custom-format dump, validated it with pg_restore --list, changed PostGIS to a persistent StatefulSet, and restored the dump before the Helm upgrade. The final kind database reported PostgreSQL 18.4 and PostGIS 3.6.4.

The local kind Secret contains independently generated values. Only their decoded lengths were inspected: the PostgreSQL password is 64 characters and each application secret is 128 characters. Secret values were not printed or written to tracked files.

Dependency-upgrade observations

  • The running Compose and kind releases reported Elixir 1.20.2 and Erlang/OTP 29.
  • Compose reported Traefik 3.7.8 and Mailpit 1.30.4; Compose and kind both reported PostgreSQL 18.4 and PostGIS 3.6.4.
  • The production asset build reported Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 and daisyUI 5.6.18; esbuild is configured at 0.28.1.
  • The isolated Node build stage reported Node.js 24.18.0, npm 12.0.1, npm outdated --json returned {}, and npm ci reported zero known vulnerabilities.
  • The Android build used Android Gradle Plugin 9.3.0, Gradle 9.6.1, Command-line Tools 22.0, and its embedded Android CLI 1.0.15857036. Unit tests, lint, and debug assembly passed; the lint report says “No errors or warnings.” The rebuilt emulator image contains the API 37 ps16k AVD and APK, and its emulator 36.6.11.0 binary returned its version successfully at runtime.
  • The final complete scripts/kind-up.sh run was idempotent and finished with both 2-replica Deployments Ready and a successful cross-replica PubSub probe.

The migration 20260718114233 and reverse block lookup index blocks_blocked_id_blocker_id_index were present. An actual EXPLAIN ANALYZE for that reverse lookup selected the index. The table contained no block rows, so this confirms query shape, not production performance.

Exact production capacity, minimum CPU/RAM, and scaling thresholds are unknown: there is no representative production dataset, traffic model, or target-environment measurement. The isolated measurements in docs/performance.md include the earlier paced public/readiness/heartbeat comparison and a later 3-web/2-worker run with real authentication, LiveView, chat writes, tracking writes, and explicit position deletion. The latter completed 1,888 authenticated chains and 240 heartbeat sockets without a functional failure and restored every tracked application table count after fixture cleanup. Neither short run found a saturation point or represents production traffic, so the Helm chart does not invent resource limits or an HPA policy.

Public staging observation

On 2026-07-18, whoneedhelp.imalto.site was published through the existing Ubuntu Nginx gateway and its OpenVPN path to the local Compose proxy. HTTP redirected to HTTPS; the homepage, fingerprinted assets, and both health endpoints returned HTTP 200. A headed Chrome session rendered the public page with zero console errors or warnings. A complete WebSocket Upgrade request to /live/websocket returned 101 Switching Protocols.

The observed Let's Encrypt certificate had the correct DNS:whoneedhelp.imalto.site SAN and an expiry of 2026-10-16. Nginx and the Certbot renewal timer were active. This verifies the current staging path; it does not make the workstation or gateway a production availability environment.

Earlier on 2026-07-19 a read-only check resolved the origin to 77.110.101.144; HTTP redirected to HTTPS, and the homepage, Safety page, and readiness endpoint returned HTTP 200 with successful TLS verification. The certificate still had the exact SAN and the same expiry. The backing ordinary Compose project was healthy and its four-node PubSub probe passed. It contained 2 users, 1 help request, 7 messages, and 8 applied migrations. At that checkpoint no mutation was performed before a validated backup/restore and explicit authorization. The later authorized rollout is recorded below; this paragraph is historical, not the current deployment state.

A mode-0600 custom-format backup of that exact database was then created at output/backups/compose-20260719-060810.dump with SHA-256 726cca11f69b1aab5e7141ba5f13ebe92c7f27c6b14172891cd2e462acc069f0. Its checksum and pg_restore catalog were validated. The restore drill read 23 public tables and 1,484 rows from a uniquely named temporary database, observed PostGIS 3.6.4, applied all 10 current migrations there, passed migration readiness, and removed that database. A final read-only source check still reported 8 migrations and the same user/request/message counts; the four running application container IDs were unchanged.

The same archive then passed ./scripts/upgrade-rehearsal-compose.sh against application commit af9018f. The isolated restored copy advanced from 8 to all 10 current migrations and reported all 11 cursor indexes valid. Two web and two worker replicas formed a four-node BEAM cluster, the cross-node PubSub probe passed, public requests produced the expected production HTTPS redirects, trusted-proxy pages and both health endpoints returned HTTP 200, and the application-table count diff was empty. The exact project, database volume, networks, and one-run image were absent after cleanup. Evidence is retained at output/upgrade-rehearsal/20260719062507-3274364. The ordinary Compose container IDs, 8-migration state, and user/request/message counts remained unchanged.

After explicit approval to update the development Compose project, application commit 143e159 was deployed on 2026-07-19. Immediately before the rollout, a new mode-0600 custom-format backup was created at output/backups/compose-20260719-093528.dump; its SHA-256 is fd5f293c63972b19af9bc967ea229cc2617c17ad32d5fcd695f2dafafef4d790. The archive passed the isolated restore drill before any source-database migration.

The ordinary Compose migration job then advanced the source database from 8 to all 10 current migrations and started two web and two worker replicas from image sha256:6685247b8e872ade5e36f2b9e88bfca09b1606823ffb3e4f1469fbcfdc15d48c. The complete before/after application-table snapshot had an empty diff, including the existing 2 users, 1 request, 7 messages, 1 assignment, and 4 ended tracking sessions. Post-rollout catalog checks found the localized category-description column and all 11 valid cursor indexes. Local live and readiness checks, the four-node cluster/PubSub probe, public home, Safety, live/readiness, TLS verification, and a WebSocket Upgrade all passed. The checked web/worker log window contained no application error, warning, exception, deadlock, or HTTP 5xx match.

Headed Chrome then rendered the updated Safety page in English and Russian, redirected the protected Requests route to the Russian login form with the expected authorization notice, and reported zero console errors or warnings. The visible browser was deliberately left open. Mode-0600 rollout evidence is retained under output/staging-rollout/20260719093528-3223196/; the browser screenshot is retained under ignored .playwright-cli/.

After the Activity rollout, headed Chrome rendered the updated public navigation, followed the Activity link to the authenticated route, and received the expected login redirect and flash with zero console errors or warnings.

After commit 307794c, staging was rebuilt with the optional GitHub OAuth boundary. Both web and both worker replicas started, the cross-node PubSub probe passed, public home/readiness returned HTTP 200, and the before/after database counts remained 2 users / 1 request / 7 messages / 14 categories / 1 assignment / 0 activities / 0 reports / 0 social identities.

A headed Chrome E2E run then registered a uniquely named example.invalid account, consumed its confirmation link from local Mailpit, authenticated, opened /profile, and observed:

  • the GitHub network option and the explicit provider-disabled explanation;
  • no Verify button while both OAuth environment variables were absent;
  • a manually added Telegram link labelled unverified;
  • removal of that owner-controlled manual link;
  • a direct /auth/social/github request returning to the profile with the controlled provider is not configured flash;
  • zero browser console errors or warnings.

The exact E2E user was checked for every foreign-key relationship to users. It had only its one authentication token and no domain records after the manual link was removed. That exact user was then deleted through Ecto, its browser session became invalid, the generated Mailpit message was deleted individually, and the original database counts were observed again. The browser windows were left open.

Local ignored browser evidence:

  • .playwright-cli/page-2026-07-18T18-09-44-303Z.png

Public Android and cross-client observation

The public-staging APK was built with the explicit ignored .env WNH_BASE_URL, installed on the API 37 emulator, and connected to https://whoneedhelp.imalto.site. Android package inspection found the exact configured HTTPS authority and no filter for attacker.example. Because the manifest intentionally does not claim App Link verification, a normal same-host implicit ACTION_VIEW may show Android's resolver. Selecting the application opened its native MainActivity; both / and /safety loaded from the public origin with no observed WebView load or TLS errors. The external origin resolved to the browser rather than the app.

The manifest intentionally sets android:autoVerify="false": this is a same-origin HTTPS deep link, not a claimed verified Android App Link. Enabling verification requires the final production application ID and signing certificate fingerprint to be published in the deployment's /.well-known/assetlinks.json.

A cross-client scenario then used headed Chrome as the requester and the public-staging Android app as the helper. The observed behavior was:

  • the Android app authenticated against the public HTTPS origin and rendered the MapLibre request;
  • chat messages travelled in both directions, including an Android-bound browser message appearing without reload;
  • Android granted foreground location permissions, started TrackingService, and showed its persistent Stop notification;
  • after Home minimized the Activity, an emulator location change from 50.46009833, 30.5334 to 50.4611, 30.5344 reached PostGIS and produced 121.97 metres of observed movement;
  • the headed browser received the helper marker in real time and removed it when tracking stopped;
  • notification Stop removed the Android service and notification, ended the exact tracking session, left zero active sessions, and deleted its raw current position.

The browser scenario exposed one UI defect: movement evidence was persisted and the marker updated, but the evidence badge remained stale until reload. The tracking PubSub event now carries the already-derived movement/proximity timestamps, and the LiveView updates its in-memory assignment from that same event without an extra query. Domain and two-client LiveView regression tests assert the event and badge change.

That fix was deployed with image digest sha256:1b991c1e07d98babb5151c010250cd0b9458195cf3de5a91972456ee72d75673. Both web and both worker containers used the digest, the cross-node PubSub probe passed, local and public readiness returned HTTP 200, and no application error/warning was found in the checked post-rollout logs. The before/after database counts remained 2 users / 1 matched request / 7 messages / 14 categories / 1 assignment / 4 ended tracking sessions / 0 active tracking sessions / 0 activities / 0 reports / 0 social identities.

The exact temporary E2E users, tokens, request, assignment, messages, tracking session, and audit records were removed in one scoped transaction. Queries by their exact identifiers found no remaining rows and the original database counts were restored. The headed browser windows and emulator were left open.

Operations and metrics verification

On 2026-07-18, the Compose database was archived with PostgreSQL 18 custom-format pg_dump. The published archive and SHA-256 sidecar were validated before an isolated restore. The restore drill created a database from template0, restored with pg_restore --exit-on-error, read 23 public application tables and 1106 restored rows, reported PostGIS 3.6.4, observed all 8 current migrations, and removed the exact temporary database. A follow-up catalog query returned zero remaining restore-drill databases. Source counts before and after remained 2 users / 1 help request / 7 messages / 14 categories / 1 assignment / 0 activities / 0 reports / 0 social identities.

The same rollout started 2 healthy web replicas and 2 worker replicas. Local live/readiness, public HTTPS readiness, and the public root returned HTTP 200. The cross-node PubSub probe passed across all four connected BEAM nodes. The protected metrics route returned HTTP 401 both locally and through public HTTPS without credentials, returned valid Prometheus text with the generated ignored local token, and was scraped directly from each web container. Helm 4.2.3 lint and template rendering passed.

Before the runtime image change, every BEAM container logged that libsctp.so.1 was unavailable. The rebuilt Debian trixie release contains the libsctp1 package and the exact shared library; no SCTP, application error, or application warning appeared in the post-rollout web/worker logs checked during this verification window.

Final full-stack regression

The broad pre-production regression below tested application commit c6aa3d1. The later responsive-header follow-up at 768d63a was separately subjected to the complete quality and browser suites, deployed, and verified as recorded after this section.

  • ./scripts/quality.sh passed the complete static, formatting, compiler, xref, Credo, Sobelow, Dialyzer, dependency-audit, manifest, secret, and image gates. ExUnit reported 172 passed. The final log is output/regression/final-20260719/quality-current.log.
  • The isolated browser project passed its bootstrap 1/1 and 27/27 scenarios: 9 in each of Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, with no skipped, flaky, or unexpected result. The suite includes accessibility, responsive navigation, medicine handover, blind reviews, Activity privacy/moderation, localization, reconnect, and active chat/tracking recovery after the serving BEAM node stops. Evidence is output/e2e/20260719162432-2790071.
  • Android debug and staging unit/lint/build gates passed. Six instrumentation tests passed independently on API 30, 34, and 37, including the foreground tracking service surviving Home plus Activity destruction. The separate API 37 public-staging smoke loaded home and Safety over the exact temporary HTTPS origin, matched no external-origin app filter, and observed zero load/TLS errors.
  • A real public Chromium two-user scenario registered isolated requester/helper fixtures, completed medicine discovery, acceptance, realtime chat, consent tracking, handover, both confirmations, and blind reviews. It passed 1/1 in 12.8 seconds. Exact fixture cleanup removed its users and domain rows; the before/after public database diff was empty. Evidence is output/staging-e2e/20260719170530-3787963.
  • The 600.5-second authenticated soak completed 271,072 iterations and 767,225 HTTP requests with zero failed HTTP requests. All 703,995 public checks passed; expected-response latency was 2.337 ms average, 5.705 ms p95, and 175.955 ms maximum in this local run. Eight authenticated sessions completed 31,607 request-page/LiveView/chat/tracking start-update-stop chains and 4,800 heartbeat WebSockets without an authenticated or WebSocket error. The database observed zero rollbacks, deadlocks, conflicts, or temporary files during the measured interval. Exact fixture cleanup restored every tracked table count. These are observations, not production SLOs or capacity limits; evidence is output/performance/authenticated-soak-10m-20260719.
  • The final isolated Compose failure/replacement drill used 3 web and 2 worker replicas. All five nodes rejoined, PubSub passed, 744/744 readiness samples succeeded, and the injected Oban job completed on attempt 2 after exactly one recorded error. Evidence is output/resilience/final-resilience-current-20260719.
  • The final project-owned kind rolling drill replaced all four web/worker pod UIDs, left all four replacements Ready with zero restarts, passed PubSub and an empty database diff, and completed 363/363 readiness samples; two needed one retry during the local single-node endpoint change. The current retained kind release is Helm revision 13 with 2/2 web, 2/2 worker, and PostGIS 1/1 Ready. Evidence is output/resilience/final-kind-current-20260719.
  • Prometheus matched all three direct web targets before and after the scoped failure; Grafana provisioning passed; Alertmanager delivered both firing and resolved webhooks for who_need_help_load-web-19; the database diff was empty. Evidence is output/observability/final-observability-current-20260719.
  • Restic/MinIO passed encrypted streaming backup, full-data repository check, fresh-database restore, corrupted-repository fail-closed checks, and interruption after uploaded objects with zero published snapshots. The source database diff was empty. Evidence is output/backups-s3/final-backup-current-20260719; the one-run MinIO project and volume were removed after the drill.
  • The database-scale harness used 50,000 configured rows per large table, captured 16 before/after plans, selected every asserted cursor index, and verified consecutive request pages without a gap or duplicate. The exact observations and limits are in output/db-scale/20260719164620-3314314 and docs/performance.md.
  • OAuth, SMTP, and HTTP-push boundaries passed success, rejection, timeout, retry, replay, and deduplication checks against local internal-only counterparts. Product acceptance and chat events produced durable jobs consumed by two worker replicas; message content was excluded from push. GitHub OAuth remains optional and disabled without credentials. Evidence is output/external-boundaries/final-boundaries-20260719.
  • A clean tracked-archive deployment at c6aa3d1 applied all 10 migrations, repeated migration idempotently, seeded 14 categories without duplication, started 2 web and 2 worker replicas, passed HTTP/Mailpit/cluster/PubSub, and left its project, image, volume, and extracted workspace absent after cleanup. Evidence is output/portability/20260719171321-3973031-61769f.
  • The ordinary public Compose database was backed up to mode-0600 output/backups/compose-20260719-165722.dump with SHA-256 5b4d8a78665c5d47863af8e1e885684b110d94c278474e37c8465e0814f7000f. The archive passed catalog validation and an isolated restore before rollout. The current public image ID is sha256:009f6754fb57a410f16252205bbfa1467a08b82a733de59c3c80e431afa8fc42 on 2 healthy web and 2 running worker replicas. The deployment diff was empty; the final read-only observation remains 2 users, 1 request, 7 messages, 4 ended tracking sessions, and 10 migrations.
  • After the workstation restart, the public route initially timed out because its existing OpenVPN connection was down. Inspection confirmed Nginx still targeted the assigned client address 10.8.0.14; reactivating the existing client1 NetworkManager profile restored that address and the public path. The final observation returned HTTPS 200, HTTP 301 to HTTPS, and the correct 77.110.101.144 endpoint. Headed Chrome then rendered the homepage with zero console errors or warnings; its document, CSS, JS, and logo requests returned 200. The visible browser was left open.
  • Scoped cleanup left zero containers, volumes, and networks for the who_need_help_load project and removed its ignored observability/backup-S3 runtime directories. The reusable ordinary public Compose project and the project-owned kind cluster intentionally remain running.

Responsive-header follow-up

Commit 768d63a replaced the duplicated public navigation bars with one responsive application header. At widths below 1280 px it exposes the primary links, language selection, theme controls, and authentication actions through a single native details menu; wider layouts show the same actions inline.

  • ./scripts/quality.sh passed after the change, including 172 ExUnit tests, formatting, compiler, xref, Credo, Sobelow, Dialyzer, dependency audits, Compose/Helm validation, and gated image scans. Evidence is output/regression/header-unification-quality-20260719.log.
  • The isolated browser project passed bootstrap 1/1 and 27/27 scenarios across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. Its responsive accessibility case exercised widths 360, 768, 1030, and 1440 px, asserted a single header and primary navigation, and detected no horizontal overflow. Evidence is output/e2e/20260719174824-537439.
  • Before the public Compose rollout, the database was backed up to mode-0600 output/backups/compose-before-header-20260719-175353.dump with SHA-256 fea893340d2428a61ebed8abb83816a6273b1afeb5d794763b00c81a37d15e2d. The archive passed an isolated restore with 23 readable public tables, 1,488 rows, all 10 migrations, and PostGIS 3.6.4 before the temporary restore database was removed.
  • The deployed image ID is sha256:8c3790e6b5fdd3f1feb08165d33d5b2ddaa9089b6606da44a804c5facd4765f6 on 2 healthy web and 2 running worker replicas. The before/after database snapshots were byte-identical: 2 users, 1 request, 7 messages, 4 tracking sessions, and 10 migrations.
  • Public HTTPS and /healthz/ready returned HTTP 200. The four BEAM replicas were connected and the deployment's cross-node PubSub check passed. Headed Chrome then verified the public page at 1030 and 360 px: one visible header, accessible menu contents, no horizontal overflow, and zero console errors or warnings. The visible browser was left open at 1030 px with the menu closed.

Brand icon follow-up

Commit c28c9a3 replaced the placeholder Phoenix mark with the selected Who Need Help symbol. The symbol remains image-only while the header name stays as accessible HTML text.

  • One source SVG reproducibly generates 48 px browser fallback, PWA 192/512, maskable 512/1024, Apple touch 180, Apple-ready 1024, Google Play 512, and legacy Android density assets through scripts/generate-brand-assets.sh. The Google Play file is 512×512, 8-bit RGBA PNG, and 27,107 bytes.
  • The PWA manifest separates any, maskable, and monochrome purposes. Android API 26+ uses foreground/background adaptive layers, API 33+ adds a monochrome layer, and API 24/25 retain generated density resources. The notification small icon is now a dedicated monochrome vector rather than the launcher artwork.
  • The pinned Android SDK 37 Docker build passed JVM unit tests, lintDebug, assembleDebug, and assembleDebugAndroidTest. The exported debug APK and lint report are under android/dist/.
  • ./scripts/quality.sh passed with 173 ExUnit tests and every static, dependency, security, manifest, and image gate. Evidence is output/regression/brand-assets-quality-20260719.log.
  • The isolated responsive/accessibility browser suite passed 6/6 across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. Evidence is output/e2e/20260719193958-2786366.
  • Before rollout, mode-0600 output/backups/compose-before-brand-20260719-194155.dump was created with SHA-256 9be1197a02783b959e2eee783c6d74b4bf2a65a581c6a4566f0e815c7465ea61. Its isolated restore retained 24 public tables, the observed domain counts, all 10 migrations, and PostGIS 3.6.4; the temporary database was removed.
  • Public image ID sha256:8db2281f2cf51b787fc22d99f2911ee870c9ee66a0ae6e9b801796ab1aff605f runs on 2 healthy web and 2 running worker replicas. The before/after database snapshots are byte-identical and cross-node PubSub passed.
  • Every public brand URL, the manifest, service worker, homepage, and readiness endpoint returned HTTP 200. Public and repository SVG SHA-256 values matched. Headed Chrome showed the new 36×36 header mark at 1030 px with no overflow or console messages. Service worker v2 activated and removed the old v1 cache. Evidence is output/brand/public-header-1030-20260719.png.

Current public functional replay

The committed two-user medicine scenario now includes browser geolocation in the primary path rather than relying only on the separate failure-recovery scenario.

  • Against https://whoneedhelp.imalto.site, the current public release passed request creation, helper acceptance, two-way realtime chat, explicit geolocation consent, appearance of the helper's live marker in the requester's browser, explicit tracking stop and marker deletion, the one-time handover code, both completion confirmations, and double-blind review reveal. The Chromium scenario passed 1/1 in 14.7 seconds. Exact cleanup removed its two users, request, assignment, messages, reviews, tracking session, abuse signals, and audit events; the before/after application-table count diff was empty. Evidence is output/staging-e2e/20260719202129-3641894.
  • The complete browser suite with that expanded primary path passed 27/27: 9 scenarios each in Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit against a fresh isolated 2-web/2-worker Compose cluster. The independent active-node-failure path also verified tracking and chat recovery after the serving BEAM node restarted. Evidence is output/e2e/20260719202632-3770163; its containers, networks, and database volume were removed by the run-scoped cleanup.

The broader public-staging replay was then expanded without reusing or deleting unrelated application records:

  • One run against https://whoneedhelp.imalto.site passed 3/3 Chromium scenarios covering registration, email confirmation, password setup, email change and re-login; medicine request, helper acceptance, private realtime chat, browser geolocation sharing and deletion, handover confirmation and double-blind reviews; motorcycle broken-chain roadside help with helper withdrawal and requester cancellation; Activity creation, join approval, approved group chat, reporting, evidence, blocking/unblocking, privacy defaults, social-link add/remove, category proposal and moderator actions.
  • The fixture tool first verified the exact database name and an unused run-specific email prefix. Cleanup validated ownership of every related request, assignment, activity, participant, message, report, proposal, review, tracking, audit and push-job record before deleting it. It removed only the six observed run users and their validated relationships. Exact Mailpit message IDs for the run were deleted separately and their absence was rechecked. The before/after counts across 19 application tables produced an empty diff. Evidence is output/staging-full-e2e/20260719210733-461538.
  • The current isolated browser matrix passed bootstrap 1/1 and application scenarios 30/30: 10 each in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. It includes active BEAM-node failure while chat and browser tracking are in use, followed by reconnect on an available replica and continued chat/tracking operation. Evidence is output/e2e/20260719211815-708067; the isolated containers, networks and PostgreSQL volume were removed automatically.
  • ./scripts/quality.sh passed on the same source state: formatting, strict compilation, xref, Credo, Sobelow, Dialyzer, 173 ExUnit tests, dependency audits, Compose/Helm/observability checks and the configured image scans. Evidence is output/regression/full-public-web-quality-20260719.log.

Known work before a public production launch

  • Replace the temporary staging origin with the production-owned domain and production infrastructure. The temporary origin is available only while the workstation, Compose stack, VPN path, gateway, and their networks are up.
  • Create a production Android signing identity, publish /.well-known/assetlinks.json for the final application ID/fingerprint if verified App Links are wanted, and complete store policy/release work.
  • Operate PostgreSQL/PostGIS with off-site backups, recovery testing, monitoring, and the availability model selected for real usage.
  • Configure a real transactional email provider before public registration. The current Compose mail path terminates at local Mailpit.
  • Configure and verify a real mobile push provider and device-token lifecycle if native push is required. The provider-neutral HTTP boundary and product jobs are tested; FCM/APNs device delivery is not.
  • Load-test representative data and traffic, then set measured pool, resource, autoscaling, and action-limit policies.
  • Publish jurisdiction-specific emergency contacts, privacy, retention, prohibited-items, and voluntary-payment guidance after legal review.
  • Establish moderation/support operations and incident response for real users.
  • If verified GitHub identity is desired, create and configure its OAuth App and exercise the external redirect/callback. This is an optional enhancement, not a registration or launch blocker.
  • Production capacity, minimum CPU/RAM, database HA topology, and autoscaling thresholds remain unknown until representative target-environment measurements exist.