Upkeep

Upkeep is a maintenance orchestrator CLI for contributed Drupal modules. From one "cockpit" directory it tracks every module you maintain across the Drupal core versions you support, shows every open contribution with its CI and local-check state on a single dashboard, runs each MR through a fully isolated check flow (PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHPCS, install, smoke) in a disposable per-module-per-core environment, and — for compat MRs that pass every gate — offers a human-approved fast-lane merge.

Environments are provisioned with ddev plus the ddev-drupal-contrib add-on (pinned at version 1.1.5) behind a thin adapter, and database fixtures come from the companion ddev-upkeep add-on. You never interact with either directly unless you want to.

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Quick start

# 1. Install
brew install owenbush/tap/upkeep       # macOS; Linux/WSL2: grab the release archive

# 2. Scaffold a cockpit
upkeep init ~/my-cockpit && cd ~/my-cockpit

# 3. Build the base artifacts for a core version you maintain for
upkeep base-artifacts:build --version=11

# 4. Look at a module — any module, registered or not
upkeep issues pathauto
upkeep dashboard pathauto

Reading git.drupalcode.org needs no credential. A token is for writing: merging, commenting and publishing.

Documentation

Getting started

Install	Requirements, installing, shell completion
GitLab token	What needs a credential and what does not
Set up a cockpit	The registry, and what lives in a cockpit directory
Base artifacts	The per-core building blocks, pre-release core majors, rebuilding
Publishing: issue forks and SSH	How work reaches drupal.org

Daily flow

The dashboard	Everything open, and what a row represents
Work on an issue	issues → start → publish
Patch contributions	The work a merge-request view cannot see
Running checks	The isolated flow, and how it matches drupal.org CI
Review, merge and release notes	Looking at it, merging it, writing it up
Working in an environment	A shell, a path, a running site
Fixtures	Check against real database state

Reference

Command reference	Every command, generated from the CLI itself
Exit codes	The 0/1/2 contract
Disk housekeeping	Where the space goes, and reclaiming it
Upgrading a cockpit	What a version change expects

Policy stance

Merges are one human approval per merge request, by Drupal Association policy. There is deliberately no batch mode and no unattended merge path: merge prompts per merge request and takes an answer, and nothing else in the tool merges at all. A browser UI existed briefly and was removed, and the one action worth a button was the one it deliberately never had — a button that POSTs an action name is not the per-MR prompt that earns the approval. See Review, merge and release notes.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.