Piik/docs/todo.md

Current TODO Ledger

Last reviewed: 2026-08-25

Only items in Now are executable after their stated decision gate. A branch name, unchecked requirement, experiment, review suggestion, or deployed behavior is not a TODO by itself.

Now

1. Implement native SFU representation adaptation. Publish fixed VP8 HIGH+LOW simulcast, enable Dynacast and LiveKit server send-side BWE, and keep AdaptiveStream disabled for current Viewers because any may become a relay. Preserve LiveKit-owned per-subscriber selection and the existing Host quality profiles; do not add a Screener quality controller or fall back to single HIGH for Host resource protection.
2. Finish real-network route acceptance. First restore the existing active-SFU decoded-progress cadence when its track or stats report disappears, deploy it, and repeat the controlled recovery transaction. Then measure standard ICE/STUN direct paths, peer relay, SFU ingress/subscription, relay-ingress repair with subtree retention, disconnect/capacity drain, Pause/Resume, screen-audio continuity and real-game A/V sync across representative IPv4/IPv6 NATs and mobile networks. Include an all-UDP-blocked case to establish bounded explicit failure. Do not add another watchdog, port prediction, NAT classification, TCP probes, guessed candidates, route scores, or quality-driven reparenting.

Accepted Later Roadmap

These items are real product work, ordered after the current physical-media, real-network, and product-decision gates; they are not permission to resume an old branch wholesale.

1. Browser VP8 hardware-acceleration evidence. After the current physical codec gate, measure supported Chrome/Edge platform combinations under real game load using actual negotiated codec, encoder implementation, power-efficient status, encode time, frame rate, and CPU/GPU attribution. Capability advertisement alone is not proof. Do not add another codec, a custom encoder, GPU-selection workaround, codec ladder, or Native helper without a new accepted decision.
2. Mobile Viewer lifecycle. Run Android Chrome and iOS Safari device matrices for autoplay gesture, foreground/background audio, foreground video recovery, lock/page reclamation, rotation, Wi-Fi/cellular migration, and an assigned relay's outbound-media survival or controller failover across those transitions. Preserve the same media element and current reconnect path; do not promise background video composition, background relay continuity, or unsupported lock-screen behavior.
3. Platform output only when real. Revisit AirPlay/Cast only when a target browser and physical receiver prove the live MediaStream contract. System mirroring remains external; no placeholder button, custom receiver, or server transcode is scheduled.
4. Public-server one-click deployment package. After every current functional and real-network item is settled, package the exact application, STUN/SFU, reverse proxy, secrets, and health checks for a user-owned public server. Require real domain/TLS/firewall/capacity inputs and recovery scoped to any infrastructure or irreversible state the installer actually changes; routine application-only immutable updates do not create or maintain a full configuration backup. Never ship credentials or call a partial deployment ready.
5. Fully local one-click Host-server package. Package Windows/macOS/Linux Host capture, the exact application server and local state without requiring source, Node or any external Screener/STUN/SFU/tunnel/relay service. Preserve usable direct P2P and use the completed NAT/network evidence to maximize reachability, while reporting public-origin, gateway, NAT and firewall limits truthfully; loopback/LAN success is not universal Internet success.
6. Native Host capture backend. At lowest priority, productize a proven Windows native capture path before expanding capture/audio backends to macOS and Linux. Its capture, hardware encode, audio, identity and lifecycle evidence becomes an input to later packages; a source checkout, helper executable, or evaluation ZIP is not a distributable product.
7. Native shared encode, Windows first. At lowest priority, prove one hardware encoder output can serve two independent Viewer transports and the Host-SFU publication while each connection retains its own RTP/RTCP, pacing, encryption, feedback, and upload accounting. Productize only after actual access-unit identity, Viewer2/FIFO, heterogeneous feedback, game-resource, browser/hardware, A/V, packaging, and licensing gates pass. Web Host/relay remains standard per-RTCPeerConnection encoding because no portable shared-encoder contract exists.
8. Whole-product UI polish and bilingual-scope decision. After current functional, physical-media, and real-network work stabilizes, review the product UI once as a whole: simplify and align copy, refine responsive hierarchy and visual consistency, add restrained motion, and measure rendering and bundle cost. Decide Chinese/English scope, default/fallback and switching persistence before introducing one shared text catalog; do not add duplicate screen-specific translations or let presentation redefine room and route semantics.
9. Repository simplification audit. After the current Browser, physical-media, route, and room checkpoints settle, inventory components, configuration, migrations, gates, timers, compatibility paths, tests, and truth-document duplication using the maintenance review. Begin read-only: identify the behavior or decision each surface preserves and compare that value with its whole-system cost. Any accepted feature tradeoff updates its single owning contract before complete unused surfaces are removed. This later audit must not become a broad refactor or block current product work.

Product Decisions Needed

Deployed or retained item	Decision
Project license and closed-commercial boundary	Decide the repository and distribution license before any public release or package distribution. GPL/AGPL implementations remain research-only until then.

These decisions are not permission to continue old branches, and current deployment remains unchanged until a scoped decision is made.

Evidence And Later Work

• The desktop Host background/minimized report is deferred after a bounded current-Chrome screening found no immediate Host-page lifecycle drop and the old contentHint = "motion" release remained a plausible confound. Reopen it only with a reproducible current-production real-game case and synchronized capture/send/receive/decode plus CPU/GPU evidence. This does not close or advance the separate Mobile Viewer lifecycle item, whose background playback and assigned-relay survival depend on mobile browser and OS lifecycle behavior.
• Open PR #192 measures synthetic flash/tone timing; it is not an A/V correction feature.
• The Native PR stack #16/#18/#22/#23/#25/#28 and related fanout branches are one research program, not six product TODOs.
• Cap3, resource, route-recovery, Viewer-MBB, signaling-blackhole, Host-generation, SFU-shaping, NAT, mobile, and endurance artifacts remain bounded evidence. Merge or retain them only when a current decision consumes them. Raw-IP ranking, port prediction, NAT classification, AirPlay/Cast receivers, and mobile background guarantees are not implied by the current implementation batch.
• Real heterogeneous-network SFU, mobile lifecycle, audio/A-V device, and endurance/resource acceptance remain owned by the corresponding Now or Later evidence gate.

Candidate Handling

• Preserve the dirty fix/configurable-relay-cap worktree only for user-change audit. Current main already implements the accepted uniform 1/2/3 endpoint cap; do not merge the worktree's old route implementation or treat it as unfinished cap work.
• Preserve dirty or unique worktrees and open stacked branches until reviewed. Never resolve their conflicts by importing old truth into main.
• Sample worktree, branch, PR, artifact, and reparse-point state immediately before cleanup; do not maintain a permanent workspace inventory here.