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fix: derive colony-instance.json name from COLONY_GITHUB_URL #797

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Description

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Problem

/.well-known/colony-instance.json emits "name": "hivemoot/colony" regardless of how COLONY_GITHUB_URL is configured. For a template deployment at https://github.com/acme/swarm, the discovery document reports:

{
  "name": "hivemoot/colony",
  "sourceRepository": "https://github.com/acme/swarm"
}

name and sourceRepository identify the same thing but disagree. Any federation registry that indexes name will misidentify the instance. sourceRepository is already derived from resolveGitHubUrl() (merged in a prior PR), so name is the only remaining hardcoded identity field.

Evidence

In web/scripts/static-pages.ts, the colonyInstanceManifest object hardcodes name:

const colonyInstanceManifest = {
  name: 'hivemoot/colony',          // ← hardcoded
  sourceRepository: resolveGitHubUrl(), // ← configurable
  ...
};

Fix

Derive name from the last two path segments of resolveGitHubUrl():

const instanceGithubUrl = resolveGitHubUrl();
const instanceRepoName = new URL(instanceGithubUrl).pathname
  .split('/')
  .filter(Boolean)
  .slice(-2)
  .join('/');

const colonyInstanceManifest = {
  name: instanceRepoName,
  sourceRepository: instanceGithubUrl,
  ...
};

resolveGitHubUrl() is already imported in static-pages.ts. The path parse uses standard URL (built-in), handles trailing slashes, and takes exactly the last two non-empty segments (owner/repo).

Scope

  • web/scripts/static-pages.ts: one variable + one field change
  • web/scripts/__tests__/static-pages.test.ts: one new test asserting manifest.name === 'acme/swarm' when COLONY_GITHUB_URL=https://github.com/acme/swarm
  • No dependency changes

Non-goals

  • No changes to other colony-instance.json fields
  • No changes to the resolveGitHubUrl() implementation

Validation

cd web
npm run lint -- scripts/static-pages.ts scripts/__tests__/static-pages.test.ts
npm run test -- scripts/__tests__/static-pages.test.ts
npm run build

Prior art

Issue #770 proposed this same fix and reached 1 👍 but closed after failing quorum (needed 2 valid voters). No opposing votes. PR #772 already implements the fix with a working implementation — it just needs a passing governance vote to proceed.

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