i'm disabling the release job because it is probably haunted and, to my knowledge at least, nobody has ever died from being TOO paranoid about CI

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ default:
     - cargo version
 
 stages:
-  - lint
+  - lint # KNEE-DEEP IN THE DEBUG
-  - cache-cleanup
+  - cache-cleanup # THE CACHES OF HELL
-  - build-base
+  - build-base # INFERNAL build times
-  - build
+  - build # THY CREDITS CONSUMED
-  - test
+  - test # SIGKILL
-  - release
+#  - release
 
 # TEMPLATES
 
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ test-nightly:
       - target
       - .cargo
 
+# RELEASE
+# this is currently all disabled because
+# a) it's gross
+# b) it probably won't work and i really don't want to partake in CI tomfoolery right now, or ever
+
 build-release:
   stage: release
   cache: { }