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home_channel string vs dict config parsing bug

Cluster 33141 · gateway. Data as of

3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
6items grouped
Known?
Yes. 6 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 3 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
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Still open
1 issue and 2 PRs.

A bug where hermes config set writes home_channel as a bare string, but the parsing code expects a dict. Multiple fixes and related improvements to config key handling are tracked here.

Open issues1

  • Issue#33141hermes config set writes platforms.<name>.home_channel as string, but HomeChannel.from_dict expects dict

Open PRs2

  • PR#108699fix(cli): wrap a bare platforms.<name>.home_channel chat id into the mapping the gateway reads
  • PR#123431fix(gateway): honour a bare-id home_channel in a platform block

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: stale or abandoned 1 · superseded by another PR 1 · other 1

  • #33145 fix(gateway): accept bare-string home_channel from `hermes config set` · stale or abandoned
  • #33532 fix(config): coerce bare-string home_channel + improve api_server.key messages (fixes #33141, fixes #33207) · other → 50c66b2, #33141, #33207
  • #39826 fix(config): accept string home channel values · superseded by another PR → #33145, #33532
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  • Pairwise link density 0.33: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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