few things

- code cleanup
- remove buckets from invocation (preserve on disk)
- add maintainer to doc schema

main.go

@@ -20,16 +20,6 @@ var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Short: "Run commands unique to tilde.town",
 }
 
-var contribCmd = &cobra.Command{
-	Use:   "contrib",
-	Short: "community-maintained town commands",
-}
-
-var adminCmd = &cobra.Command{
-	Use:   "admin",
-	Short: "commands used for administering the town",
-}
-
 func isAdmin() (bool, error) {
 	u, err := user.Current()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -53,34 +43,13 @@ func isAdmin() (bool, error) {
 	}
 
 	return false, nil
-
 }
 
-func init() {
-	rootCmd.AddCommand(contribCmd)
-
-	parseCommands(rootCmd, "core")
-	parseCommands(contribCmd, "contrib")
-
-	admin, err := isAdmin()
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Sprintf("failed to check admin status: %s", err))
-	}
-
-	if admin {
-		rootCmd.AddCommand(adminCmd)
-		parseCommands(adminCmd, "admin")
-	}
-
-	// I feel like the example/documentation yaml can be frontmatter for non-binary files. to start
-	// i'll just do the accompanying yaml file.
-}
-
-func parseCommands(targetCmd *cobra.Command, path string) {
+func parseCommands(targetCmd *cobra.Command, path string) error {
 	binPath := filepath.Join(binroot, path)
 	files, err := ioutil.ReadDir(binPath)
 	if err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Sprintf("failed to list directory %s: %s", binPath, err))
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to list directory %s: %s", binPath, err)
 	}
 
 	for _, file := range files {
@@ -88,12 +57,15 @@ func parseCommands(targetCmd *cobra.Command, path string) {
 			parseCommand(targetCmd, filepath.Join(binPath, file.Name()))
 		}
 	}
+
+	return nil
 }
 
 type commandDoc struct {
-	ShortDesc string `yaml:"shortDesc"`
-	LongDesc  string `yaml:"longDesc"`
-	Examples  string
+	ShortDesc  string `yaml:"shortDesc"`
+	LongDesc   string `yaml:"longDesc"`
+	Examples   string
+	Maintainer string
 }
 
 func parseCommand(targetCmd *cobra.Command, yamlPath string) {
@@ -149,6 +121,40 @@ func execWrapper(executablePath string) func(*cobra.Command, []string) error {
 	}
 }
 
-func main() {
+func cli() int {
+	err := parseCommands(rootCmd, "core")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to parse core commands: %s", err)
+		return 1
+	}
+
+	err = parseCommands(rootCmd, "contrib")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to parse contrib commands: %s", err)
+		return 1
+	}
+
+	admin, err := isAdmin()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to check admin status: %s", err)
+		return 2
+	}
+
+	if admin {
+		err = parseCommands(rootCmd, "admin")
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to parse admin commands: %s", err)
+			return 1
+		}
+	}
+
+	// I feel like the example/documentation yaml can be frontmatter for non-binary files. to start
+	// i'll just do the accompanying yaml file.
 	rootCmd.Execute()
+
+	return 0
+}
+
+func main() {
+	os.Exit(cli())
 }