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Fixes #817

Implements option 1 from the issue: document the supported targets as the five
release platforms and state that other GOOS values are unsupported and not a
review criterion.

What changed

  • CONTRIBUTING.md: new Supported platforms section naming the five release
    targets (linux-x64, linux-arm64, macos-arm64, macos-x64,
    windows-x64) and stating that other GOOS/GOARCH values, including Plan 9,
    are not a review criterion.
  • AGENTS.md: pointer under Common Review Blockers so reviewers stop asking
    for Plan 9 compilation.
  • .coderabbit.yaml: path instruction for Go files not to request Plan 9 /
    unsupported GOOS shims.

No code behavior change. retry_dialerrno_plan9.go from #750 is left in place; dropping that
dead shim is a maintainer call (option 3 in the issue).

Test plan

Documentation only.

  • Diff is CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, and .coderabbit.yaml only
  • Platform names match release-artifacts.yml / install.sh / install.ps1
    (linux-x64, linux-arm64, macos-arm64, macos-x64, windows-x64)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Documented the five officially supported release platforms: Linux x64, Linux arm64, macOS arm64, macOS x64, and Windows x64.
    • Clarified that other operating system and architecture combinations, including Plan 9, are unsupported.
    • Added guidance that unsupported platforms should not block reviews, while tests may use them as unsupported-platform fixtures.
  • Chores
    • Updated review guidance to align with the documented platform support policy.

Plan 9 has never compiled and is not a release or CI target. Reviews still
asked for plan9 shims. Document the five release platforms as the supported
set so unsupported GOOS is not a review criterion.

Fixes Gitlawb#817
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The change defines five supported release platforms and updates contributor documentation and Go review instructions to exclude unsupported GOOS/GOARCH combinations, including Plan 9, from review criteria.

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Supported target policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document supported targets
.coderabbit.yaml, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
The five supported platforms are documented. Other GOOS/GOARCH combinations, including Plan 9, are unsupported and must not block review. Tests may use plan9 as an unsupported-platform fixture.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

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This PR only documents the five supported release targets and updates review guidance, with no code or runtime behavior change. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: documenting the five supported targets and removing Plan 9 from review criteria.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #817 by documenting the five supported release platforms and stating that other GOOS/GOARCH combinations, including Plan 9, are unsupported and not review criteria. Retaining…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changes are limited to CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, and .coderabbit.yaml, and they directly support the documentation and review-policy objectives in issue #817. No unrelated code or behavior chang…
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The changes satisfy issue #817 by documenting the five supported release platforms and stating that other GOOS/GOARCH combinations, including Plan 9, are unsupported and not review criteria. Retaining the Plan 9 shim is permitted because issue #817 leaves that decision to maintainers.

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All changes are limited to CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, and .coderabbit.yaml, and they directly support the documentation and review-policy objectives in issue #817. No unrelated code or behavior changes are included.

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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 84-88: Update AGENTS.md lines 84-88 to exclude unsupported
GOOS/GOARCH combinations, not just unsupported GOOS values, while preserving the
five exact release targets and allowing unsupported targets such as plan9 as
fixtures. Update .coderabbit.yaml lines 32-34 to state that any other
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Comment thread AGENTS.md Outdated
CONTRIBUTING.md names five exact release combinations. Align AGENTS.md and
.coderabbit.yaml so other GOOS/GOARCH pairs are not a review criterion.
Unsupported targets such as plan9 remain allowed as fixtures.
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Approving. Docs-only, and the five named targets match what the code actually supports.

Worth knowing: this PR's CI had never run. Its checks were held at action_required behind the fork gate, so the single green check was CodeRabbit rather than the suite. I released it and all seven checks pass.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

  • [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge
    AGENTS.md:76-78
    The PR still merges from 27b319c, while live main is 1b5db17 and has two newer commits. There is no current file overlap, but the repository treats a stale head as a hard blocker; rebase and have the resolved head reviewed.

Findings

  • [P2] Keep Android within the reviewable support policy
    CONTRIBUTING.md:141-143
    The policy equates the five native release artifact names with the complete support set, then tells reviewers not to consider every other GOOS/GOARCH. That is not true for Android: docs/INSTALL.md documents a native Termux path that specifically requires GOOS=android GOARCH=arm64, and scripts/postinstall.mjs deliberately maps Android to the Linux release artifact. In other words, Android has no distinct android-arm64 artifact, but it is still an intentionally supported runtime/install path. The new wording would make Android-specific failures—such as the documented Android syscall workaround—non-actionable in review.

    Please separate “native prebuilt release artifacts” from the broader set of supported runtime/install paths. Keep the five-artifact list and the Plan 9 exclusion, but explicitly retain Android/Termux as a supported mapping (or limit the non-reviewable statement to targets with neither a supported source-install path nor a supported artifact fallback). If maintainers instead intend to drop Android, make that an explicit product decision and remove or update its installation and wrapper support together; do not silently do so through reviewer guidance.

  • [P3] Correct the PowerShell installer claim
    CONTRIBUTING.md:131-133
    The release workflow publishes windows-x64 only, but scripts/install.ps1 treats Arm64 as an accepted architecture and constructs zero-v<version>-windows-arm64.zip. That asset does not exist, so a native Windows-on-ARM installation follows an accepted code path to a 404. The npm installer already handles the equivalent case explicitly: it skips windows-arm64 and tells users to use the x64 build under emulation or build from source. Saying that install.ps1 resolves the same five targets therefore publishes an incorrect contract and conceals the unsupported-path failure.

    Address the root mismatch in one place: either make install.ps1 reject or provide the same clear x64-emulation/source-build fallback for ARM64 before constructing the download URL, then document that behavior; or remove install.ps1 from the assertion and describe the list strictly as the five release artifacts. Do not imply Windows ARM64 is a supported native artifact unless the release workflow and checks actually add one.

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Plan 9 is treated as a review criterion but has never been a supported target

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