[kixelated]

Problem

The HLS master ignored the broadcast catalog's contributions, so an on-demand ladder could not expose its rungs to HLS players.

Approach

Follow each root contribution with Source::follow through the server's scoped origin, then read each instance through a pinned Source. List their audio/video catalog metadata on the root's grid without querying or subscribing to media tracks. A replacement updates the master; an explicit instance pin never follows another stream.

A requested contribution rendition owns media demand through first encode, fetch, and response-body delivery. Three target durations after its last response completes, release both the subscription and its track-info query. A later request resumes on the same segment grid. DASH, direct Broadcaster::new exports, and recorder cursors keep the broadcast's own renditions.

Impact

• Additive HTTP routes: /{broadcast}/@{instance}/contribution/{id}/{kind}/{rendition}/@{contribution-instance}/..., with IDs encoded as individual path segments. Both instances prevent replacement streams from reusing URLs. Placing the child instance last keeps these routes disjoint from existing rendition URLs for longer broadcast paths.
• Additive Rust API: Route::contribution exposes the parsed Contribution { id, instance }; each existing Resource still carries the parent instance. Server::respond handles the new routes, and authorization keeps checking Route::broadcast.
• HLS segments contributions on the root catalog's join interval and clock, whatever their own catalogs declare. A contribution refused other than by authorization is listed once its broadcast is announced. Denied contributions are omitted and their URLs return 403. Audio names are qualified by contribution ID, with collisions resolved within each codec group after quoting.
• Wire format: unchanged. The hang draft clarifies that an HLS master selects contributions by reading their catalogs and segments them on the listing catalog's media, and that an on-demand publisher answers its catalog without starting media.
• moq-net behavior: after a refused resolution, Following (and so moq_mux::follow::Instances) waits for the serving route to change, even to another route of the same instance, instead of asking the refusing route again. It's noted in moq-net's MIGRATE.
• http-body is now a workspace dependency.

Choices made without asking

• Idle grace is the longer of three target durations and the playlist window plus one target duration (20 s by default). RFC 8216 §6.3.4 permits a reload after one target duration, and two more intervals allow request latency. Release forgets the listed rows, so it also waits until a live window would have evicted every row the last response listed. The grace counts from completion and never expires an active response.
• Include both publisher instances in contribution URLs, with the child instance immediately before the resource filename.
• Reuse the existing rendition set in lazy mode, with no second resolver or eager track-info query. Keep contribution discovery on the HTTP serve path so recording does not select contributions.
• When the parent catalog fails, stop following and advertising its contributions (pullfrog's review and the automated review's fourth finding). A clean end freezes the final catalog, entries included, as the broadcast's own renditions keep their final set.
• A contribution rendition is listed only once its broadcast binding resolves, so one that is still pending, denied, or failed is never advertised.
• The master answers from contributions alone whenever no own rendition could still be listed (all disabled or failed), not only when the own set is empty.
• The lazy media playlist wait stays unbounded: an on-demand encode's first segment can take longer than READY_TIMEOUT, and the wait ends with the client's connection.
• Contribution catalog watchers run among the driver's leads, ahead of media watchers, as the root's does.

Alternatives

• Source::bind alone would permanently pin the first contribution instance and miss its replacements.
• An eager contribution broadcaster would demand every media track just to list the master.
• Extending DASH would require media for every listed $Time$ timeline, defeating lazy start.

Validation

Iteration on CodeRabbit's re-review (after merging main 732ced8970):

• Tests passed: cargo test --locked -p moq-hls 247 + 15 + 1, -p moq-net --lib 2,853, and -p moq-mux --lib -- follow source 126.
• a_contribution_rendition_whose_broadcast_failed_is_not_listed and a_contribution_answers_the_master_when_no_own_rendition_is_listable each fail with their fix reverted.
• cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings passed for moq-hls (with and without default features) and moq-net.

Iteration on the bot threads (after merging main 818c279b2b):

• Tests passed: cargo test --locked -p moq-hls 245 + 15 + 1, -p moq-net --lib 2,853, and -p moq-mux --lib 2,045.
• Each new test fails with its fix reverted:
  • a_contribution_rendition_is_listed_once_its_broadcast_resolves
  • the pinned() check in idle_release_keeps_an_ended_playlists_inherited_segments
  • a_finished_parent_catalog_keeps_its_contributions
  • spawned_leads_run_first
  • announced_retries_a_refusal_on_another_route_of_the_instance
  • announced_waits_after_refusing_a_closed_instances_successor
• cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings passed for moq-hls (with and without default features), moq-net, moq-mux, and moq-relay. cargo hakari verify and cargo doc -p moq-hls with -D warnings passed.

Iteration on the decisions (after merging main ab6bb2865f):

• cargo test --locked -p moq-hls: 242 + 15 + 1 passed. contributions_take_the_roots_grid_and_denied_ones_are_not_advertised fails without the root-media sync: a contribution declaring 1 s lists TARGETDURATION:2 instead of the root's 4. a_refused_contribution_is_listed_once_announced fails without the moq-net change because the refusing route is asked again.
• cargo test --locked -p moq-net --lib: 2850 passed. announced_reports_a_dropped_prepared_answer now also checks that the refusing route is not asked again, and fails without the change.
• cargo test --locked -p moq-mux --lib -- follow source: 125 passed.
• cargo clippy --locked -- -D warnings passed for moq-hls (default features and --no-default-features), moq-net, and moq-mux, all with --all-targets.
• a_set_closed_before_its_catalog_answers_a_lookup hangs without the review's deadlock fix. idle_release_waits_out_the_playlist_window fails with the old 12 s grace.
• just drafts check passed.
• just ci was not rerun, because disk on this host is short. The changes stay in moq-hls, moq-net's follower, and docs.

Iteration on 237e167 (after merging main 3f39969175):

• cargo test --locked -p moq-hls: 240 + 15 + 1 passed. Each new test fails without its fix: a_sync_after_clear_adds_nothing, the child-slot case in contribution_resources_keep_the_parent_policy_path, idle_release_keeps_an_ended_playlists_inherited_segments, and a_failed_parent_catalog_stops_its_contributions. (clocks_compare_as_instants_across_scales was removed with the clock check.)
• cargo clippy --locked -p moq-hls --all-targets with default features and with --no-default-features, both -D warnings: passed.
• just ci was not rerun: only moq-hls changed, and disk on this host is short.

Earlier rounds:

• just ci: 11,633 Rust tests, JS checks/tests, Rust lint/rustdoc, draft/Markdown checks, GitHub harness tests, shell/TOML/Nix formatting, and quest validation passed. The only failure is the pre-existing strict flake restriction below.
• just rs test -p moq-hls: 251 passed, including mocked-clock idle/reload and reconfigure handover, slow encode/body, cold discovery, first-master completeness, restart/pin, denied-scope, grid, URL, and name-collision coverage.
• cargo clippy --locked -p moq-hls --no-default-features --all-targets -- -D warnings: passed.
• just drafts check: passed. just test interop --all: all 177 checks passed, including the JS/Rust HLS grid.
• cargo bench --locked -p moq-hls --bench contributions -- --quick: all 18 master/lookup cases completed, sweeping 1/8/64 contributions by 1/4/16 renditions. The new target is included in Nightly, and python3 sh/gh/nightly.test.py passed all 16 tests.
• The catalog-listing test fails on clean main df672865be: its master returns 200 with the own renditions and never lists the contribution. The same test passes on this branch.

Strict Nix check: just ci on this branch and CI_STRICT=1 bash sh/local.sh nix flake check --print-build-logs on clean main df672865be both fail building the same /nix/store/k6j6qw86x77lz6dnl2wqbxi86cjy31yw-github-runner.drv: systemd-repart reports unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map: Operation not permitted. No harness or environment setting was changed to bypass it. This is the shared base failure already recorded in moq-dev/moq#7759 and moq-dev/moq#7763.

Review

Codex gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main, using a quest freshly built with nix build .#quest:

• Round 4: no findings on head c0b76dfb8f3195a0e33515e5e4afd7551f02d3e3.
• The pushed head 42c5d276d36d06bebf64908831059d718339b84b adds only merges and quest-link fixes on top of the reviewed head, so no new round was needed:
  • Merges of main through 44a24b9769, including moq-dev/moq#7868's resize handover. Its unplaced and resized claim state keeps absolute group numbers across this PR's idle release, so a resize retire during idle still hands the abandoned open segment to the replacement.
  • One hand resolution, in Cargo.toml: main removed the hmac workspace entry (moq-dev/moq#7873) next to this PR's http-body. http-body is kept.
  • pullfrog's quest link fix 4a452d0e61, and 42c5d276d3. The latter drops the Required entry pointing at this PR's deleted quest from quest/m2/follow-refused-retry.md, a quest that came in from moq-dev/moq#7917. Neither changes code.
  • A final merge of main through 736d22de79, whose only Rust change is in moq-gst, which none of this PR's crates depend on.
  • Apart from those two, the PR's changed lines are identical to the reviewed head's.
• After the merges: quest check --base origin/main passed (on the final head too). Tests passed: cargo test --locked -p moq-hls 249 + 15 + 1, -p moq-net --lib 2,856, and -p moq-mux --lib 2,060. cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings passed for moq-hls (with and without default features), moq-net, and moq-mux. All ran through quest gate.
• CodeRabbit contributions.rs:243 (a failed lookup answering 404): declined, because Current::Failed already propagates as Err to server_error, which answers 403. contributions_take_the_roots_grid_and_denied_ones_are_not_advertised asserts that.
• Design checkpoint at round 4: the approach holds. The open review threads are down to edge cases at the boundaries (binding states, an all-disabled root, and announcement visibility), each fixed or declined with a cited decision. I recommend merging as is.
• CodeRabbit re-review threads on abfde930cc:
  • Fixed: mod.rs:169 (contributions answer when no own rendition is listable) and rendition.rs:1157 (only a resolved binding lists).
  • Declined per decision 2: follow.rs:305. A same-metadata handler swap is invisible to every announcement consumer by design.
• Round 3: no findings on head abfde930cc7da2d7a1153ad659b3f75a6a27e1a6.
• Round 2 on fce20a1358 had one finding, fixed: after a refusal, the closed-last-instance handover in Following re-asked the refusing route on every call. It now waits for a route change.
• Round 1 on d210d5ad1f had three findings, all fixed:
  • [P2] A refusal was never retried when the same instance came to serve the path over another route (an Update). It now is.
  • [P2] A clean root-catalog end cleared contributions. Now only a failure does.
  • [P2] Contribution catalog watchers lacked the root watcher's polling precedence. They now run among the driver's leads.

Bot threads resolved on abfde930cc:

• Fixed: pullfrog rendition.rs:451 (a finished window keeps its track pin), CodeRabbit contributions.rs:153 (a contribution rendition waits for its binding to resolve), doc/bin/hls.md:73 (URL grammar moved to rustdoc), and Cargo.toml:24 (workspace http-body).
• Declined with reasons: routes.rs:120 (the lazy wait is unbounded on purpose, now documented) and rendition.rs:468 (the idle grace already covers the playlist window).
• Declined per decision 1: contributions.rs:130 and :230, both about the removed compatible().

Earlier rounds: Codex found nothing on e7f14c3ffb (after the decisions) or on 237e1675ed. Claude Code found nothing on 45c56660850c4ff20772ade64e1a3af98c8a5950.

Decisions

The maintainer settled these on 2026-11-04 (design change). They came from the automated review.

1. Timeline and clock check for a contribution:
   • ✅ None (2026-11-04). Contributions are broadcasts included in the root and share its PTS timeline and catalog-root media. Their renditions take the root's join interval and clock, and a mismatch is the publisher's bug.
   • Require both catalogs to declare a clock.
   • Compare clocks only when both declare one.
2. Not-yet-routed contribution:
   • ✅ Wait for its announcement indefinitely (2026-11-04), following it as Source::follow does. An authorization refusal stays final (omitted, 403).
   • Retry the follow with a 1 to 5 s backoff.
   • Stay failed until the catalog changes.
3. A fresh server's first request for a contribution segment:
   • ✅ Keep the immediate 404 (2026-11-04).
   • Wait up to 5 s for the segment to be indexed.
4. A contribution ID moving to another path under one instance:
   • ✅ No change (2026-11-04).
   • Add a path hash to contribution URLs.

Renaming contributions to include is under consideration as its own quest.

Follow-ups

None identified outside the existing shared check failures.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5)

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The HTTP HLS server lists eligible contribution renditions from contribution catalogs and serves their media on demand. Contribution URLs and request handling distinguish parent and contribution instances. The change adds lazy media-demand tracking, contribution lifecycle handling, tests, and benchmarks. It also changes route-following behavior so a refused route is not retried until the serving route changes.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 42c5d

An unpinned contribution can temporarily disappear from HLS master playlists during a restart, and the segment-serving documentation overstates cache-only availability. These are bounded issues but should be addressed or accepted before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 39.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: HLS lists contributions without starting their media.
Description check		The description explains the HLS contribution listing, on-demand media behavior, routes, and related design decisions. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 39.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 43 functions across 17 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Finishing Touches

Simplify code

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• Create a new PR

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head 45c5666.

[P2] Wait for lazy indexing before returning a cold segment (rs/moq-hls/src/server/routes.rs:150–151). A player can obtain a contribution playlist from exporter A and request its still-cached segment from a fresh exporter B. B's demand() only schedules the watcher; segment() immediately finds no local row and returns 404 before that watcher can index the media. The same occurs after idle clears the rows, and an inline-codec init can fail similarly. Wait for the lazy rendition to index or otherwise resolve the requested resource before deciding it is absent; test first requests for segment and init without a local media-playlist request.

[P2] Include the child path in contribution URL identity (rs/moq-hls/src/export/master.rs:56–62; contributions.rs:77–85). If a catalog retargets alias guest from ./pool/a to ./pool/b, both paths can legitimately be served under the same prefix-route instance. With the same rendition name, config and segment number, the emitted cacheable URL is unchanged even though the media differs: an instance is scoped by broadcast path. Include a stable discriminator for the resolved child path in the URL and lookup, and test retargeting between two paths sharing an instance.

[P2] Check timeline compatibility rather than structural clock equality (rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:218–220). Two independent broadcasts with no declared clock both pass None == None, even though their PTS zero can differ. For example, parent video at PTS 120 s and contribution audio at PTS 0 are advertised together on incompatible grids, without a wall mapping to align them. Conversely, identical wall instants encoded as 1000/1000 and 1000000/1000000 are rejected because Timestamp equality includes its scale. Require a verifiable shared timeline and compare declared wall mappings in a common exact scale; test both missing and differently scaled clocks.

[P2] Propagate parent catalog failure to contribution exports (rs/moq-hls/src/export/mod.rs:364–366, 559). After a valid parent catalog lists a child, aborting that catalog while the broadcast stays open fails the parent's rendition set only. The child remains followed and advertised, and its media playlist can keep growing and starting demand from the stale parent catalog. Carry the parent catalog failure to contribution listing and lookup, and cover a parent catalog abort after a child becomes live.

[P2] Re-arm contribution discovery after a recoverable follow failure (rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:246–259). A follow resolution failure, such as an on-demand prepared answer being dropped with Unroutable, stores Failed and exits. Later publication of that path cannot recover it: sync retains the failed entry while the catalog reference is unchanged. Re-arm discovery when a new route becomes available, while preserving a genuine authorization refusal; test a failed first resolution followed by a successful child announcement.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static inspection of the contribution, route, timeline and lifecycle paths, with independent passes. I did not run tests, reproduce a cold multi-edge request or exercise a live publisher.

(Written by review (OpenAI))

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — minor suggestions inline.

Reviewed changes

• Contribution discovery — a new export/contributions.rs follows every root catalog contributions entry with Source::follow, builds a per-instance lazy rendition set, and lists compatible audio/video in the HTTP master without starting media.
• Request-scoped lazy demand — Rendition gains a Demand guard, a three-target-duration idle release, and an idle-aware reconfigure handoff; server::routes wraps responses so demand spans the first encode and body delivery.
• Contribution routes — Route::parse gains the nested contribution/{id}/{kind}/{rendition}/@{instance} grammar with Route::contribution, and the master emits both parent and contribution instances.
• Master naming — contribution audio NAMEs are qualified by ID and deduped per codec group after quoting.
• Docs, bench, nightly — the hang draft and doc/bin/hls.md describe catalog-only selection; the new benchmark is wired into nightly.
• Quest bookkeeping — the completed quest file and its README entry are removed.

ℹ️ Contributions outlive the parent catalog

watch_catalog finishes the own rendition set with renditions.finish(result) when the root catalog stream ends or fails, but never clears contributions, so their follow tasks and catalog subscriptions keep running and variants() keeps listing them. If a finished or failed parent should stop advertising live contributions, clear them alongside; if keeping them is intentional, a comment should say why.

Technical details

# Contributions are not finished with the parent catalog

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-hls/src/export/mod.rs:544-560` — the catalog loop breaks on `Ok(None)`/`Err` and calls only `renditions.finish(result)`, leaving `contributions` untouched.
- `rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:108-112` — `clear()` is the only teardown for the entries, and it is called only from `replaced()`/`Guard::drop`.
- `rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:224-262` — a surviving entry keeps its `follow_instances` task and, per `Start`, a child `watch_catalog` catalog subscription.

## Required outcome
- Either a finished/failed parent catalog also stops following contributions and drops them from the master, or the code states why contributions intentionally outlive the parent catalog.
- If cleared, also decide whether a failed parent's master route should still list live contribution variants.

## Open questions for the human
- Should the master of a broadcast whose catalog finished still advertise contribution variants a player can switch into?

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head 237e167, following the previous review and separating the main merge from the substantive update.

Fixed: parent catalog EOF/failure now removes contribution exports; clearing is terminal against a racing sync; equivalent declared clocks compare as exact instants across scales. The ordinary-route fallback and ended-playlist predecessor retention fixes also look sound. No additional actionable regression found in this update.

Four previously reported P2 issues remain, as the description's “Decisions needed” section acknowledges:

• Cold resource lookup — rs/moq-hls/src/server/routes.rs:135–136,150–151: demand schedules indexing, but segment and inline-codec init lookups can return 404 before a fresh edge indexes cached media. Wait for indexing to establish availability or absence; cover direct first requests without a local media-playlist request.
• Retargeted alias identity — rs/moq-hls/src/export/master.rs:56–62: moving one contribution ID between child paths that share a publisher instance can reuse a cacheable URL for different media. Include the resolved child path in URL/lookup identity, or enforce an immutable ID-to-path contract.
• Clockless alignment — rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:226–228: the scale-equality half is fixed, but (None, None) still advertises independently zeroed timelines together. Require a shared-clock guarantee before combining them; test parent PTS 120 s against child PTS 0.
• Follow failure recovery — rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:263–275,79–82: a transient resolution failure still exits the follower permanently. Even a catalog refresh with the same reference retains the failed entry. Re-arm discovery on route recovery while preserving authorization refusals; test failure followed by successful child publication.

Overall: the fixes move this forward, but the four open behaviors still need resolution before this is a clean review.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static inspection of the changed code, relevant callers and regression tests. I did not run tests or reproduce multi-edge playback. Exact-head Check runs were queued when inspected; the validation results in the description were not independently reproduced.

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor suggestion inline.

Reviewed changes

• Terminal contribution teardown — contributions::Producer::clear() now closes its state under the write lock, so a sync() racing past its catalog await cannot repopulate entries or spawn follow tasks.
• Parent catalog lifecycle — watch_catalog now clears the contribution set when the parent catalog ends or fails, so contributions stop following and advertising with it.
• Timeline comparison — declared contribution clocks now compare as exact wall instants across scales instead of structurally; only one side declaring a clock is still rejected.
• Route fallback — the contribution arm now also requires an instance-shaped child slot, so an ordinary URL on a longer broadcast path falls through to the existing grammar.
• Ended-window retention — idle release on a finished lazy window keeps its rows, inherited predecessor, and finished watcher instead of clearing them.
• Docs and tests — the HLS doc notes the media max age beside the playlist window; new tests cover the clear/sync race, cross-scale clocks, parent-catalog failure, and ended-playlist retention.

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[pullfrog]

The failing check was the Check job's JS suite, not moq-hls: @moq/net failed draft-22: a wider fill is refused in ascending order. That test is flaky on the base commit (ffcb7cd97 reproduced it 21/200 runs, per #7854), and this PR does not touch js/net.

Per the repository's flaky-test policy, I applied the same skip queued in #7851 (test.skip.each plus a follow-up note) and pushed commit f692a9c36 to quest/m0/hls-contributions.

Verification:

• bun test in js/net: 2886 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed (previously 2887 pass / 1 fail).
• bunx biome check js/net/src/ietf/publisher.test.ts: clean.

Task list (7/7 completed)

• Checkout PR feat(hls): list contributions without starting their media #7836 branch
• Fetch failing check suite logs
• Verify failure introduced by PR
• Diagnose and fix failure
• Reproduce locally with CI command
• Review diff, commit, push
• Report progress

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head f692a9c against the last reviewed head 237e167; the base is unchanged. The only new change disables the documented flaky wider-fill cases, matching repository policy and the skip in #7851. No new defect found in that delta.

[P2] Keep the track pin while retaining a finished playlist (rs/moq-hls/src/export/rendition.rs:445–450). I independently confirmed the new Pullfrog finding. When a contribution catalog stays online but its separately referenced media sibling closes, the lazy rendition keeps its ended playlist. After three target durations, idle release drops handle.track before the finished-window return. A later listed segment cannot reacquire the track from the closed broadcast and returns 404 even while its groups remain cached. Move the release below the finished guard, and test a listed segment after sibling closure and idle, not just playlist equality. This is unchanged from the previous head, not caused by the test skip.

The four unresolved findings in the previous review also remain unchanged: cold resource lookup, retargeted alias URL identity, clockless alignment, and recovery after follow failure. Overall, those behaviors and retained-media pinning still need resolution.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static inspection; no tests or live playback executed. Exact-head Check was running when inspected. Reported local test results were not independently reproduced.

[kixelated]

Design change: the maintainer settled the four open decisions on 2026-11-04.

1. No timeline or clock check. Contributions are broadcasts included in the root, so they share the root's PTS timeline and its catalog-root media. Each contribution's renditions now take the root catalog's join interval and clock, and compatible() is gone. A mismatched contribution is the publisher's bug, not something HLS filters.
2. Wait for a not-yet-routed contribution's announcement, however long it takes. A refusal other than Unauthorized leaves the contribution unlisted until its next announcement. To make that possible, moq-net's Following no longer re-asks a refusing route; after a refusal it waits for the path's next announcement change. Unauthorized stays final: the contribution is omitted and its URLs answer 403.
3. A fresh server keeps answering a contribution segment request with an immediate 404.
4. No path hash in contribution URLs.

A rename of contributions to include gets its own quest and is not part of this PR.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No new issues in the incremental commits; nothing to fix in this delta.

Reviewed changes

Reviewing the three commits since the prior pullfrog review (d6d44c1): the refusal-retry, pending-listing, clean-end, and track-pin fixes, plus the origin/main merge.

• Refusal waits for a route change — moq-net's Following tracks a refused flag, skips the closed-predecessor handover while refused, and re-arms unseen on an Update/Takeover even for the same instance, so the refusing route is no longer re-asked on every call. New tests cover both the closed-predecessor handover and the same-instance-over-another-route recovery.
• Pending contribution renditions withheld — contributions::{poll_advertised, variants} now list a rendition only once poll_resolved is ready and poll_refused pending, so a still-resolving (possibly denied) sibling binding stays out of the master. New Rendition::poll_resolved and a test that serves the sibling and watches the variant appear.
• Catalog watchers run as leads — the driver gained a Lane enum and a leads task set, so root and contribution catalog watchers are polled before media watchers; spawned_leads_run_first pins the ordering.
• Clean root-catalog end keeps contributions — watch_catalog clears the contribution set only on catalog failure, freezing the final catalog and its entries on a clean end, with a_finished_parent_catalog_keeps_its_contributions covering it.
• Finished playlists keep their track pin — idle release now takes the track query only after the finished-window early return; the ended-playlist test asserts pinned() after idle.
• Docs and comments — Route::Contribution rustdoc, the HLS contribution-URL paragraph, and the unbounded lazy-wait comment describe the behavior; moq-net's MIGRATE documents the Following change.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit 9ae830b against the last reviewed head abfde93, separating merges from base 732ced8.

The new failed-binding filter and contribution-only master readiness fixes look sound. No additional actionable regression found in that delta; the settled timeline, cold-404, URL-identity and announcement decisions remain respected.

[P2, still open] Retain a completed child catalog for later root-media reconciliation (rs/moq-hls/src/export/mod.rs:558–591). The child catalog's clean EOF still exits watch_catalog and permanently finishes its rendition set. If the child finishes its catalog while its broadcast/media remain online and the root still has join=None, the later root None → Some(interval) update cannot create child renditions: the reconciliation watcher has already exited. Preserve the child's final catalog and continue reconciling root media until that contribution ends. This is unchanged from the previous review.

Overall: the incremental fixes are sound, but the outstanding child-catalog lifetime still needs correction.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of the incremental changes, surrounding lifecycle/binding code, tests and prior discussion. No builds, tests or playback were run; reported validation was not independently reproduced.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewing the delta since the prior pullfrog review (abfde93), which fixes two CodeRabbit re-review findings.

• Failed bindings stay out of contribution listings — Rendition::poll_resolved now returns Poll<bool> and only a successful broadcast resolution passes the listing check, so a sibling route settled with a non-authorization error (e.g. Unroutable) no longer leaks a rendition into the master.
• Contributions answer when no own rendition is listable — the new renditions::Producer::listable (enabled and not failed on its own) replaces the empty-set check in Broadcaster::advertised, so a root whose own renditions are all disabled or failed returns its contribution variants without waiting out READY_TIMEOUT.
• Regression tests — a_contribution_rendition_whose_broadcast_failed_is_not_listed rejects the sibling route, and a_contribution_answers_the_master_when_no_own_rendition_is_listable covers the all-disabled root.

The base merge at 732ced8970 is conflict-free and changes no PR behavior.

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Fixed the Quest check failure. The PR deletes the completed quest/m0/hls-contributions.md, but quest/m1/catalog-include.md (newer, from main) still linked to it twice, so quest check failed with "link does not resolve".

Updated both references in quest/m1/catalog-include.md to point at the implementing PR (#7836), matching the repo's convention for a retired quest. Verified every internal /quest/ link across the tree resolves, then committed and pushed as 4a452d0e6 to quest/m0/hls-contributions.

Task list (5/5 completed)

• Checkout PR feat(hls): list contributions without starting their media #7836 branch
• Fetch check suite logs and identify failure
• Verify failure was introduced by this PR
• Reproduce and fix locally
• Commit and push fix

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Review comments at @rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:
- Around line 225-243: Update poll_rendition so errors from
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Minor · Keep an unpinned contribution listed while it is offline. · contributions.rs:163-181

rs/moq-hls/src/export/contributions.rs:163-181
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Keep an unpinned contribution listed while it is offline.

When its serving instance ends, follow_instances sets the contribution to Current::Offline. variants then omits it from the next master playlist until it restarts. This conflicts with the documented behavior. Retain its last advertised variant metadata while offline, and replace that metadata on the next Start; keep authorization refusals omitted.

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Update variants and the follow_instances lifecycle so unpinned contributions
retain their last advertised variant metadata when Current is Offline, and
replace it when the contribution starts again. Keep authorization-refused
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- Around line 163-181: Update variants and the follow_instances lifecycle so
unpinned contributions retain their last advertised variant metadata when
Current is Offline, and replace it when the contribution starts again. Keep
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