Document initial Gitea deployment and team access; refs #1

backmatter/devopsAIPromptLog.tex

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 pipeline remain proposed work. No performance results or completed monitoring
 features are claimed. The combined report still requires final author review
 and compilation before submission.
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+\subsection{Record 8 --- Gitea Foundation and Evidence Draft}
+\textbf{Dates:} October 12--15, 2026.\\
+\textbf{Tool:} OpenAI Codex.\\
+\textbf{Task:} Guide Victor through Student Pack application, Docker/SQLite
+Gitea setup, SSH tunneling, Elastic IP association, and Payton's key access;
+prepare the pre-PR documentation from supplied execution evidence.\\
+\textbf{Human contribution:} Victor operated the consoles and terminals,
+created accounts, supplied screenshots, and reported Payton's successful SSH
+connection. Payton's remaining work was not executed by the assistant.\\
+\textbf{Output used:} Non-secret Compose configuration, deployment notes,
+saved screenshots, Gitea chapter draft, and matching inventory, account-hint,
+history, and metadata updates.\\
+\textbf{Corrections and limits:} Documented benefit activation separately from
+academic approval; recorded the current Elastic IP and the unresolved campus
+SSH timeout; did not infer public HTTPS or persistence replacement success
+from local checks. Domain details, renewal and external checks, PR workflows,
+final compilation, and submission remain unverified.