Add a Donate button, CODEOWNERS, FUNDING.yml and four issue forms by donislawdev · Pull Request #8 · donislawdev/BetterWindowsServices

donislawdev · 2026-09-23T13:53:34Z

What this does

Two commits, one for the repository and one for the window.

.github

CODEOWNERS - GitHub requests a review from the owner on a pull request somebody else opens. The comment describes the ruleset as measured: six required checks, no approval required, code-owner review off - and says why it has to stay off while one person owns every path.
FUNDING.yml - the sponsor button, pointing at donislawdev.com/support.
Four issue forms and a config. Bug report (version, window or command line, whether it ran as administrator, Windows display language, a difference between a plan's preview and its run), disagreement with sc.exe (the exact commands to paste beside bws show --json), feature request (three things the project will not revisit), question. Blank issues off, security reports to the private channel.
PublicSurfaceGuards now reads CODEOWNERS, the one file in .github with no extension.

The Donate button

At the right end of the row above the search box, in the library's own button style like Columns, with a heart drawn as a shape. The tooltip says it opens the page in the browser and that the tool itself still connects to nothing.
A window with administrator rights never starts the browser itself. A process started from it would inherit that token. It hands the address to the desktop's shell instead (ShellWindows, a local server run as the interactive user, then IShellDispatch2.ShellExecute - the sequence Microsoft published for this), and never falls back to a direct start. Without those rights it starts the browser directly. Any failure is a sentence in the status line with the address.
ExternalLinks.cs is the second file in the window allowed to start anything. The process guard names both and also looks for a shell object asked to execute. The window binds six native modules, read from the built assembly, each registered with its reason - one new module it calls, four release functions the generator declares and nothing calls.

How it was checked

Bws.Architecture.Tests 182/182, ExternalLinksGuards 7/7, DesktopShellContractTests 1/1 on a session with a desktop.
The safety rule is tested on the desktop's refusal, not its success. Eight mutation entries for the button, all caught.
Issue forms parsed with PyYAML and checked for structure - an unquoted No was a boolean and is now quoted.
Screenshots at three window sizes: the row did not grow, and the button's right edge is on the line of Columns.

What this does not check

The click itself, in either mode - a test must not open a browser on somebody's screen. To check by hand: an elevated window, the browser closed, press Donate, then Task Manager, Details, the Elevated column beside the browser should say No.
With User Account Control off the desktop is elevated, so the browser is too - stated, not avoidable.
DesktopShellContractTests does not run on the build server, because whether it has a desktop was not measured.
How the issue forms render on GitHub, the sponsor button and the code-owner request - they take effect from the default branch.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added a Donate button that opens the project’s support page in a browser. When the app runs as administrator, the page opens through the desktop under the user’s rights.
- Added guidance and templates for bug reports, feature requests, questions, and reports of differences from Windows sc.exe.
Documentation
- Updated the README and changelog with details about the Donate button and its internet connection behavior.
- Added contribution and repository guidance, including ownership and review information.

…of issue CODEOWNERS makes GitHub request a review from the owner on a pull request somebody else opens. Its comment describes this repository as measured: one active ruleset on the default branch, six required checks, no approval required, and code-owner review left off - which has to stay off while one person owns every path, or no pull request could ever be merged. FUNDING.yml puts the sponsor button on the repository, pointing at donislawdev.com/support. Four issue forms and a config. A bug report asks for the version, the surface, whether the tool ran as administrator, the display language of Windows, and any difference between a plan's preview and its run. A separate form takes a disagreement with sc.exe, with the exact commands to paste beside bws show --json. A feature request states three things the project will not revisit. Blank issues are off, and security reports go to the private channel. Every dropdown option is quoted - an unquoted No is a boolean in YAML 1.1, and the local structure check caught it. PublicSurfaceGuards reads CODEOWNERS now. It is the one file GitHub reads from .github that has no extension, so no pattern reached it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

A Donate button at the right end of the row above the search box, in the library's own button style like Columns, with a heart drawn as a shape rather than a glyph. Its tooltip says it opens the page in the browser and that the tool itself still connects to nothing. The window usually runs as administrator, and a process started from it inherits that token. So a window with those rights does not start the browser itself: it hands the address to the desktop's shell - ShellWindows, a local server that runs as the interactive user, then IShellDispatch2.ShellExecute, the sequence Microsoft published for exactly this. Whatever the desktop answers, it never falls back to a direct start. A window without those rights starts the browser directly. Any failure is a sentence in the status line with the address to type in. With User Account Control off the desktop itself is elevated, and that is stated rather than hidden. ExternalLinks.cs is the second file in the window allowed to start anything, and the address is a constant there. The process guard names both files and now also looks for a shell object asked to execute, which starts a browser without the word Process. The window binds six native modules, read from the built assembly: OLE32 is the one new module it calls, and four are release functions the generator declares beside handle types and nothing calls - each registered with that reason. ExternalLinksGuards holds the rule on the desktop's refusal rather than its success, a real shell refusal, the address as a constant, and the button's right edge on the line of Columns. DesktopShellContractTests asks the desktop and stops one step short of starting anything - it runs only on a real machine, so the window's internals are visible to the integration tests too. Four comments, CONTRIBUTING.md and the README said only one file may start a process or that the program opens no link, and now say what is true. Bws.Architecture.Tests 182/182, ExternalLinksGuards 7/7, the desktop test 1/1 on a session with a desktop, and eight mutation entries caught. Not checked by anything automatic, on purpose: the click itself, because a test must not open a browser on somebody's screen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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Walkthrough

The window adds a Donate button that opens a fixed support page. Non-elevated windows start the browser directly; elevated windows ask the desktop shell to open the page. The pull request also adds GitHub issue forms, repository ownership and funding settings, and supporting tests and documentation.

Changes

Support-page link

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Support-page routing `src/Bws.Gui/ExternalLinks.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/NativeMethods.txt`	`ExternalLinks` routes the fixed support address to direct browser startup when the window is not elevated and to the desktop shell when it is elevated. It returns `null` on success and an error message on failure.
Donate button and window wiring `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/*`, `src/Bws.Gui/ScopeBar.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/ScopeBar.xaml.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.xaml.cs`	The scope bar displays the localized Donate button and support mark. `MainWindow` handles clicks and reports returned errors through the model.
Support-link validation and documentation `src/Bws.Gui/AssemblyInfo.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Elevation.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `README.md`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/*`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ExternalLinksGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Integration.Tests/DesktopShellContractTests.cs`	Tests check routing, button properties, desktop-shell discovery, and process-start guards. Documentation describes the browser handoff and the related process-starting convention.

GitHub repository setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Issue intake forms `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*`	Adds forms for bug reports, feature requests, questions, and disagreements with `sc.exe`. The configuration disables blank issues and provides contact links.
Repository ownership and funding `.github/CODEOWNERS`, `.github/FUNDING.yml`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/PublicSurfaceGuards.cs`	Adds repository-wide ownership and a custom funding link. The published-file guard now includes `CODEOWNERS`.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MainWindow
  participant ExternalLinks
  participant DesktopShell
  participant Browser
  MainWindow->>ExternalLinks: OpenSupport
  alt Window is elevated
    ExternalLinks->>DesktopShell: ShellExecute support address
    DesktopShell->>Browser: Open support page
  else Window is not elevated
    ExternalLinks->>Browser: Start with support address
  end
  ExternalLinks-->>MainWindow: Return success or error

Suggested labels: enhancement, ui, security

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d4692

The elevated support-page action can leave the window unresponsive when the desktop shell is busy, and supported desktopless integration runs can fail. Bound the handoff and fix the test selection before merging.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
No Obvious Performance Problems	⚠️ Warning	The Donate click performs synchronous external work on WPF's UI thread. `MainWindow.OpenSupportPage` directly calls `ExternalLinks.OpenSupport()`. The elevated path then synchronously runs `CoCreateIn…	Make the click handler asynchronous and move the shell-discovery and browser-launch work off the dispatcher thread. Preserve the elevated security behavior by running the COM desktop route on a dedicated STA worker, since `ExternalLinks.Des…
No Resource Leaks	⚠️ Warning	The elevated Donate path acquires several COM objects on every click and never releases them. `ExternalLinks.Desktop()` creates `IShellWindows` at lines 171-172, receives the desktop service provider …	Make the COM ownership explicit. Release `IShellWindows`, the desktop service provider, `IShellBrowser`, `IShellView`, the background object, and the `IShellFolderViewDual` wrapper in `Desktop()` with `finally` blocks on success, no-desktop…

✅ Passed checks (12 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main user-facing and repository changes: a Donate button and the added GitHub community files. It is specific, concise, and suitable for release notes or git history.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The PR adds tests for the new runtime behavior. `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ExternalLinksGuards.cs` covers the fixed support address, elevated routing without direct browser start, non-elevated routing, fail…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff adds no CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .claude, or .env files. Searches found no credentials, tokens, API keys, private e-mails, local absolute paths, internal hosts, IP addresses, or debug-o…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The PR changes WPF UI, but it does not hardcode the checked styling properties on individual controls. The Donate button uses the existing control styling, and the new heart uses the shared `SupportMa…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	No explicit Desktop robustness failure is introduced. The new code adds only a constant HTTPS support URL and user-initiated browser handoff. The tooltip states that the page opens in the browser, and…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	No unsafe file parsing was introduced. The PR adds static JSON strings, YAML issue forms, and static XAML/resource declarations. The JSON parses successfully, and all changed YAML files parse with saf…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The PR does not change system state covered by this check. It only opens the fixed support URL through `Process.Start` for non-elevated windows or the desktop shell for elevated windows. The diff cont…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	No explicit clear-text failure is introduced. The new Donate button has the visible label “Donate” and a tooltip that explains the action and the browser/network boundary. The failure path states that…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The pull request changes match the title and description: community files, the Donate button, its elevated-process handling, related tests, and architecture documentation. The new behavior is implemen…

Full details: No Obvious Performance Problems

Explanation

The Donate click performs synchronous external work on WPF's UI thread. MainWindow.OpenSupportPage directly calls ExternalLinks.OpenSupport(). The elevated path then synchronously runs CoCreateInstance, FindWindowSW, QueryService, QueryActiveShellView, GetItemObject, and ShellExecute through COM; the non-elevated path synchronously calls Process.Start. These calls can wait on the desktop shell or process launch and can make the window stop responding. The new scope ItemsControl is not a problem because Scopes.Positions always contains exactly three items.

Resolution

Make the click handler asynchronous and move the shell-discovery and browser-launch work off the dispatcher thread. Preserve the elevated security behavior by running the COM desktop route on a dedicated STA worker, since ExternalLinks.Desktop() requires an STA, and run the direct Process.Start route on a worker as well. Await the operation in OpenSupportPage, then update _model.Says.CouldNotDo on the UI context only after the operation completes. Do not add a direct-launch fallback for elevated windows.

Full details: No Resource Leaks

Explanation

The elevated Donate path acquires several COM objects on every click and never releases them. ExternalLinks.Desktop() creates IShellWindows at lines 171-172, receives the desktop service provider from FindWindowSW at lines 183-184, then obtains IShellBrowser, IShellView, the background object, IShellFolderViewDual, and IShellDispatch2 at lines 189-195. HandToDesktop() uses the returned shell at lines 127-139 but does not release it. The only explicit cleanup is Marshal.FreeBSTR(file); the COM references are left for finalization, so repeated use can accumulate COM proxies and keep the shell server references alive.

Resolution

Make the COM ownership explicit. Release IShellWindows, the desktop service provider, IShellBrowser, IShellView, the background object, and the IShellFolderViewDual wrapper in Desktop() with finally blocks on success, no-desktop returns, and exceptions. Return only the acquired IShellDispatch2 after the intermediate objects are released, and release that shell in a finally block in HandToDesktop() after ShellExecute returns. Use the appropriate COM release mechanism for the generated interfaces, such as Marshal.ReleaseComObject or Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject, and retain the existing BSTR cleanup.

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In @.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml:
- Around line 21-28: Update the Version field in
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In `@src/Bws.Gui/ExternalLinks.cs`:
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src/Bws.Gui/Elevation.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ExternalLinks.cs
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src/Bws.Gui/ScopeBar.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/ScopeBar.xaml.cs
src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Controls.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Values.xaml
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/LayeringGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/OutboundRegisters.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/PublicSurfaceGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ExternalLinksGuards.cs
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