mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook
Feb 2025 – Nov 2025
10 Months active
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Build AutomationDocumentationLegal ComplianceLicensingMarkdownScripting
Suguru Hirahara
PROFILE
Suguru Hirahara
Over a ten-month period, Acious Tick developed and maintained the mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook repository, delivering 296 features and 48 bug fixes to advance self-hosted infrastructure automation. Acious Tick engineered modular Ansible-based playbooks, integrating services like Nextcloud, Joplin Server, and Grafana Loki, while standardizing configuration management and documentation practices. Their work included dependency upgrades, CI/CD automation, and migration of Ansible roles to Radicle for improved maintainability. Using YAML, Shell, and Markdown, Acious Tick enhanced deployment reliability, onboarding, and operational observability. The depth of their contributions is reflected in systematic refactoring, robust documentation, and consistent application of DevOps best practices.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
86%Features
Repository Contributions
750Total
Bugs
48
Commits
750
Features
296
Lines of code
17,745
Activity Months10
Your Network
37 peopleSame Organization
@noreply.codeberg.org20
Work History
November 2025
14 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2025Month 2025-11 performance summary for the mash-playbook project. Focused on consolidating Ansible role management under Radicle, improving dependency hygiene, and tightening deployment safety with targeted bug fixes. Key work increased maintainability, reduced risk, and prepared a stronger foundation for ongoing collaboration across the self-hosting stack.
14 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2025Month 2025-11 performance summary for the mash-playbook project. Focused on consolidating Ansible role management under Radicle, improving dependency hygiene, and tightening deployment safety with targeted bug fixes. Key work increased maintainability, reduced risk, and prepared a stronger foundation for ongoing collaboration across the self-hosting stack.
November 2025
October 2025
47 Commits • 20 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 (2025-10) was a focused cycle of upgrades, refactors, and documentation improvements across the mash-playbook stack, delivering clear business value, improved stability, and stronger maintainability. Highlights include major service upgrades, automation enhancements, and a consolidated governance move to Radicle for core Ansible roles.
October 2025
47 Commits • 20 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 (2025-10) was a focused cycle of upgrades, refactors, and documentation improvements across the mash-playbook stack, delivering clear business value, improved stability, and stronger maintainability. Highlights include major service upgrades, automation enhancements, and a consolidated governance move to Radicle for core Ansible roles.
September 2025
70 Commits • 49 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (2025-09) was marked by substantive Nextcloud integration enhancements, infrastructure improvements, and ongoing maintenance that reduce deployment friction and strengthen security. Key outcomes include enabling multi-database support for Nextcloud (MySQL and SQLite), migrating mail configuration to environment variables for easier secret management, and sequential Nextcloud version bumps to stay current. Infrastructure enhancements in mash servers improved group_vars for systemd service creation and network settings, along with naming standardization and improved handling of GoToSocial database. Authentication and access improvements were achieved through LLDAP integration across Pocket ID, Nextcloud, and Tinyauth, plus upgrades to Pocket ID and Tinyauth. A broad set of documentation and maintenance updates improved onboarding, consistency, and knowledge transfer. Business value: faster, more flexible deployments; reduced operational risk; improved security posture; and clearer governance of configuration and naming conventions across the stack.
70 Commits • 49 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (2025-09) was marked by substantive Nextcloud integration enhancements, infrastructure improvements, and ongoing maintenance that reduce deployment friction and strengthen security. Key outcomes include enabling multi-database support for Nextcloud (MySQL and SQLite), migrating mail configuration to environment variables for easier secret management, and sequential Nextcloud version bumps to stay current. Infrastructure enhancements in mash servers improved group_vars for systemd service creation and network settings, along with naming standardization and improved handling of GoToSocial database. Authentication and access improvements were achieved through LLDAP integration across Pocket ID, Nextcloud, and Tinyauth, plus upgrades to Pocket ID and Tinyauth. A broad set of documentation and maintenance updates improved onboarding, consistency, and knowledge transfer. Business value: faster, more flexible deployments; reduced operational risk; improved security posture; and clearer governance of configuration and naming conventions across the stack.
September 2025
August 2025
215 Commits • 52 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 performance highlights focused on automation hardening, standardization, and reliability for the Mash Playbook repo. The team delivered concrete features, fixed key issues, and advanced documentation quality to improve maintainability and business value.
August 2025
215 Commits • 52 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 performance highlights focused on automation hardening, standardization, and reliability for the Mash Playbook repo. The team delivered concrete features, fixed key issues, and advanced documentation quality to improve maintainability and business value.
July 2025
75 Commits • 25 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mash-playbook highlighting feature deliveries, maintenance improvements, and impact on deployment flexibility and service coverage. Focused on decoupling infrastructure components, expanding supported services, and enhancing documentation for faster onboarding and safer upgrades. Key outcomes include more modular deployment of MongoDB, refined mash_servers configuration, and expanded templates/docs for YaCy, Excalidraw, and Duplicati, along with consistent core-service upgrades and documentation hygiene. A critical bug fix resolved a syntax error in config/scripts to prevent deployment failures.
75 Commits • 25 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mash-playbook highlighting feature deliveries, maintenance improvements, and impact on deployment flexibility and service coverage. Focused on decoupling infrastructure components, expanding supported services, and enhancing documentation for faster onboarding and safer upgrades. Key outcomes include more modular deployment of MongoDB, refined mash_servers configuration, and expanded templates/docs for YaCy, Excalidraw, and Duplicati, along with consistent core-service upgrades and documentation hygiene. A critical bug fix resolved a syntax error in config/scripts to prevent deployment failures.
July 2025
June 2025
24 Commits • 10 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 delivered notable feature and quality improvements for Mash Playbook (mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook). Key features include ReactFlux integration across templates and docs, and dependency upgrades to core components (ntfy, ConvertX, Anki). The CI/CD and quality tooling were established, including pre-commit enforcement and codespell, with fixes applied. Bot/config improvements refined automation behavior and group mappings. Documentation improvements were made for docker-registry-proxy and other docs, along with a new DevOps scaffolding for syncstorage-rs-docker. Renovate configuration was adjusted to support versioning semantics. The changes reduce maintenance overhead, improve release reliability, and accelerate feature delivery.
June 2025
24 Commits • 10 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 delivered notable feature and quality improvements for Mash Playbook (mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook). Key features include ReactFlux integration across templates and docs, and dependency upgrades to core components (ntfy, ConvertX, Anki). The CI/CD and quality tooling were established, including pre-commit enforcement and codespell, with fixes applied. Bot/config improvements refined automation behavior and group mappings. Documentation improvements were made for docker-registry-proxy and other docs, along with a new DevOps scaffolding for syncstorage-rs-docker. Renovate configuration was adjusted to support versioning semantics. The changes reduce maintenance overhead, improve release reliability, and accelerate feature delivery.
May 2025
127 Commits • 66 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 performance snapshot for mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook. Delivered feature richness, stability, and better operational observability through targeted docs, upgrades, and configuration improvements across the Mash Playbook ecosystem. Highlights include Grafana Loki docs updates with copyright attribution and deduplicated Promtail/Grafana details; major dependency upgrades for Docmost, Homarr, and Ghostfolio to newer versions; enabling exim-relay for authentik via new configuration variables; Loki configuration modernization with a dynamic loki_scheme variable; and systematic improvements to systemd service lists (fixes and renames) across multiple apps to reduce drift and simplify operations.
127 Commits • 66 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 performance snapshot for mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook. Delivered feature richness, stability, and better operational observability through targeted docs, upgrades, and configuration improvements across the Mash Playbook ecosystem. Highlights include Grafana Loki docs updates with copyright attribution and deduplicated Promtail/Grafana details; major dependency upgrades for Docmost, Homarr, and Ghostfolio to newer versions; enabling exim-relay for authentik via new configuration variables; Loki configuration modernization with a dynamic loki_scheme variable; and systematic improvements to systemd service lists (fixes and renames) across multiple apps to reduce drift and simplify operations.
May 2025
April 2025
50 Commits • 22 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mash-playbook. Delivered broad dependency upgrades, expanded configurability, and documentation/quality improvements, strengthening platform stability and maintainability. Key outcomes include cross-service version bumps, a new lock-threads.yml for concurrency control, and a comprehensive refresh of developer docs and standards. Stability enhancements were applied by reverting an experimental Send upgrade to mitigate issues, while continuing targeted upgrades. Business value realized via improved security, performance, and maintainability across the self-hosted stack.
April 2025
50 Commits • 22 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mash-playbook. Delivered broad dependency upgrades, expanded configurability, and documentation/quality improvements, strengthening platform stability and maintainability. Key outcomes include cross-service version bumps, a new lock-threads.yml for concurrency control, and a comprehensive refresh of developer docs and standards. Stability enhancements were applied by reverting an experimental Send upgrade to mitigate issues, while continuing targeted upgrades. Business value realized via improved security, performance, and maintainability across the self-hosted stack.
March 2025
56 Commits • 17 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 performance summary for mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook focused on delivering notification capabilities, collaboration tooling, and documentation/maintainability improvements that drive reliability, developer productivity, and business value. Delivered features and documentation across multiple subsystems with targeted commits that enable operational readiness and easier onboarding for new contributors. Key highlights and outcomes: - Ntfy Core Integration: added ntfy and email notification support to the Ntfy integration, enabling real-time alerts for critical events. Commits include 1f370cdd6e944182366f891ca713b383b3125f82 and c771283760b40847a0d0eb11083105c1c2d5d16e. - Ntfy Documentation Updates: comprehensive docs for ntfy integration and related components (ntfy.md and uptime-kuma.md) to improve developer guidance and operator runbooks. Commits include 70c9aa69ed5f8f7afd5e56dbac43a96543525c58, 91fe7aa732a391ff9221a59f0882ce8cf37f5496, c94bf8db56abb35f97cd087465e1437b87c4779e, df7dcfe373912dcbe3feba41796bb007638f5388, 1e3390e3f0cd0899a70e3d230d4e7f284063d501. - Etherpad Integration: added Etherpad support for MASH and updated documentation so Etherpad is available in Jitsi conferences, improving collaboration for remote teams. Commits include 62b037b9529df50f0f6f16be36a9f8fa7277e1bd, 821d9c55171cc5b749d543b2bf1a3bf64bcca9ac, a5b4a3301859595ef036fae13a153f3e5e762b9a, ea08fc7c04bbaec7e81dec60dd552f8c4e509fec. - Documentation and Formatting Improvements: broad improvements including interoperability and introductions docs, typography fixes, and copyright header insertions to enhance readability, licensing clarity, and brand consistency. Commits include 12d3d6896bb77ed20c623dfb04dc5e3f2db2d879, 22aee1f26e1b128f967a7e5f1671e46252d07429, 739316167f3fe86936814de5be7c4d427392ea6f, cd33670cc51a17a87bbff68576070514fb421610, 29635ccbe9c5ebc8514abc776560d9f419f95add, 182d7267cae8d17ee2cc5f56bb64e19f062a2736. - Mash Servers Group Vars and Variable Naming Improvements: reorganized mash_servers group_vars for Traefik, Postgres, MongoDB, PostGIS, MariaDB, etc., and applied scheme-based variable naming to standardize HTTPS handling across mash_vars. This includes multiple commits that reorganize and alphabetize blocks for maintainability. Representative commits: 14f7b8009a82ea97edc473b6cafb96afe7f53556, a0fb29b608893902a39fa647f937291db519a26e0, dce4d29e6443bbaabb85320df3b96dde5ddde3af, c1f2ce9828c31092f4f206f9d772718e1446111c, b14b63e483260bf46271da5a8a80c80e927a6e23, b10968bfd5136b56dfb86b06b456dc122e26a727, 101505be3c26619cc8e3d6e1d435fe9560e81bbe. - Joplin and Forgejo / Setup Improvements: included a Joplin server version bump and a setup.yml comment clarifying systemd service manager usage to improve deployment consistency and reduce misconfigurations. Commits: 939503cfa4349ef0682f02af709ca5dabb8f1620, 9ec61ef9aa5d58732c625dcb9175a477c3bc66fc. - Uptime Kuma and Noteworthy Updates: standardized “Uptime Kuma” branding in uptime-kuma docs and added Notfellchen to supported-services.md for branding and compliance. Commits: 9d1d7c1c2957ad7e9c0555883664a20bd9395027, 8497a96d60cd35aa6cddef6a999816d85f2bd6ca, 724137c80fba111dfa6efb9d758e10d9b4fab03d, 737f50633a3edd1c7c98f89fb7eb47017b67c9d2. - Automation and Quality: updated the justfile to use the just_executable for reliability and portability across environments, aligning tooling with contemporary CI practices. Commit: ab96425d2b5bf22ffed8ee86c9d757beb9b595c5. Overall impact: A cohesive set of feature deliveries and documentation improvements that enhance observability, collaboration, and deployment reliability while reducing onboarding friction for contributors. The changes collectively reduce maintenance overhead, improve deployment consistency, and strengthen the business value delivered by mash-playbook in March 2025.
56 Commits • 17 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 performance summary for mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook focused on delivering notification capabilities, collaboration tooling, and documentation/maintainability improvements that drive reliability, developer productivity, and business value. Delivered features and documentation across multiple subsystems with targeted commits that enable operational readiness and easier onboarding for new contributors. Key highlights and outcomes: - Ntfy Core Integration: added ntfy and email notification support to the Ntfy integration, enabling real-time alerts for critical events. Commits include 1f370cdd6e944182366f891ca713b383b3125f82 and c771283760b40847a0d0eb11083105c1c2d5d16e. - Ntfy Documentation Updates: comprehensive docs for ntfy integration and related components (ntfy.md and uptime-kuma.md) to improve developer guidance and operator runbooks. Commits include 70c9aa69ed5f8f7afd5e56dbac43a96543525c58, 91fe7aa732a391ff9221a59f0882ce8cf37f5496, c94bf8db56abb35f97cd087465e1437b87c4779e, df7dcfe373912dcbe3feba41796bb007638f5388, 1e3390e3f0cd0899a70e3d230d4e7f284063d501. - Etherpad Integration: added Etherpad support for MASH and updated documentation so Etherpad is available in Jitsi conferences, improving collaboration for remote teams. Commits include 62b037b9529df50f0f6f16be36a9f8fa7277e1bd, 821d9c55171cc5b749d543b2bf1a3bf64bcca9ac, a5b4a3301859595ef036fae13a153f3e5e762b9a, ea08fc7c04bbaec7e81dec60dd552f8c4e509fec. - Documentation and Formatting Improvements: broad improvements including interoperability and introductions docs, typography fixes, and copyright header insertions to enhance readability, licensing clarity, and brand consistency. Commits include 12d3d6896bb77ed20c623dfb04dc5e3f2db2d879, 22aee1f26e1b128f967a7e5f1671e46252d07429, 739316167f3fe86936814de5be7c4d427392ea6f, cd33670cc51a17a87bbff68576070514fb421610, 29635ccbe9c5ebc8514abc776560d9f419f95add, 182d7267cae8d17ee2cc5f56bb64e19f062a2736. - Mash Servers Group Vars and Variable Naming Improvements: reorganized mash_servers group_vars for Traefik, Postgres, MongoDB, PostGIS, MariaDB, etc., and applied scheme-based variable naming to standardize HTTPS handling across mash_vars. This includes multiple commits that reorganize and alphabetize blocks for maintainability. Representative commits: 14f7b8009a82ea97edc473b6cafb96afe7f53556, a0fb29b608893902a39fa647f937291db519a26e0, dce4d29e6443bbaabb85320df3b96dde5ddde3af, c1f2ce9828c31092f4f206f9d772718e1446111c, b14b63e483260bf46271da5a8a80c80e927a6e23, b10968bfd5136b56dfb86b06b456dc122e26a727, 101505be3c26619cc8e3d6e1d435fe9560e81bbe. - Joplin and Forgejo / Setup Improvements: included a Joplin server version bump and a setup.yml comment clarifying systemd service manager usage to improve deployment consistency and reduce misconfigurations. Commits: 939503cfa4349ef0682f02af709ca5dabb8f1620, 9ec61ef9aa5d58732c625dcb9175a477c3bc66fc. - Uptime Kuma and Noteworthy Updates: standardized “Uptime Kuma” branding in uptime-kuma docs and added Notfellchen to supported-services.md for branding and compliance. Commits: 9d1d7c1c2957ad7e9c0555883664a20bd9395027, 8497a96d60cd35aa6cddef6a999816d85f2bd6ca, 724137c80fba111dfa6efb9d758e10d9b4fab03d, 737f50633a3edd1c7c98f89fb7eb47017b67c9d2. - Automation and Quality: updated the justfile to use the just_executable for reliability and portability across environments, aligning tooling with contemporary CI practices. Commit: ab96425d2b5bf22ffed8ee86c9d757beb9b595c5. Overall impact: A cohesive set of feature deliveries and documentation improvements that enhance observability, collaboration, and deployment reliability while reducing onboarding friction for contributors. The changes collectively reduce maintenance overhead, improve deployment consistency, and strengthen the business value delivered by mash-playbook in March 2025.
March 2025
February 2025
72 Commits • 33 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — Mash Playbook (mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook): Delivered substantial documentation consolidation and standardization, expanded Justfile compatibility, and advanced Jitsi-related playbook documentation for MASH. Reused MDAD content, added copyright headers, improved anchors/navigation, and fixed several navigation/link issues. Business value: faster onboarding, reliable operator references, and clearer maintenance path.
February 2025
72 Commits • 33 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — Mash Playbook (mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook): Delivered substantial documentation consolidation and standardization, expanded Justfile compatibility, and advanced Jitsi-related playbook documentation for MASH. Reused MDAD content, added copyright headers, improved anchors/navigation, and fixed several navigation/link issues. Business value: faster onboarding, reliable operator references, and clearer maintenance path.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness97.0%
Maintainability97.2%
Architecture96.6%
Performance94.6%
AI Usage20.0%
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