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Finishes Delete the old start bookkeeping.

Summary

Lite TrackRun now keeps where a subscription starts in one Start enum instead of four fields (emit_range, start, first, skipped):

• Legacy: lite-03/04 send no SUBSCRIBE_START and no drops.
• Unresolved { first, skipped }: the held first group and the drops collected before the start.
• Resolved(u64): where delivery starts.

resolve() is now the only way out of Unresolved, and it moves skipped out as it switches, so a resolved start can't leave its held drops unsent.

Bug fixed: on lite-07, a start past the live edge (a subscriber resuming just after what it holds) was answered by a shortcut. That shortcut set self.start and buffered START itself, so any drop held while the start was unresolved was never sent, and the subscriber waited out its grace for those groups. The shortcut now goes through resolve(), passing along the largest position it already polled.

Decisions made without asking

• Lite-07 requested == start gate: already gone. On main, apply_response takes the active.live.reports_starts() branch on lite-07 (since feat(net)!: lite-07 Range IDs, SUBSCRIBE_STARTED, and range fills #7872's SUBSCRIBE_STARTED) and declares from per-range starts, so no change was needed. The gate remains for lite-05/06, which are published and get no START per update.
• Pre-06 re-pin in TrackRun::update, and named.is_none() && !resolves_start() in start(): kept. They implement the published pre-06 rule that an absent start means the latest group, which is wire semantics rather than duplicated bookkeeping. They only read Start.
• Wire: no START per update on lite-07. SUBSCRIBE_STARTED already covers what that would have carried.

Public API / Wire

None. Behavior: lite-07 now sends held SUBSCRIBE_DROPs when a start past the live edge is answered.

Validation

• Reproduced first: the new a_start_past_the_live_edge_names_what_it_held test (group 5 written, group 11 dropped, SUBSCRIBE from 10 on lite-07) failed on main with no drop sent (left: []). It passes after the change.
• cargo test -p moq-net --features async --lib: 3244 passed. Clippy -D warnings is clean.
• TLA+ verify-subscribe (SubscribeAccounting.tla) on 6d4c52c (the code is unchanged since; only a doc comment and a cfg gate moved), each under quest gate and systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryMax=16G -p MemorySwapMax=0, one at a time:
  • default config: no error, 77,667,780 distinct states (430,648,094 generated), 20m53s.
  • Continuation.cfg: no error, 29,641,907 distinct states (137,827,531 generated), 6m57s.
  • StreamWins.cfg: StreamWins violated after 2,874 distinct states. This is the skill's documented open finding (a group read whole named in a stale drop, tracked by its \* Open finding: line); this PR doesn't cause it, and Nightly expects this config to fail.
• Model unchanged: it starts every subscription answered ("Not covered": SUBSCRIBE_START, floors, ranges), so the Start state and the past-the-live-edge drop fix are outside it. The rules it covers in poll_track (Recv::Group once resolved, the drop forwarding) behave as before, which the passing runs confirm. The sync commit stays put because other changes since it are not this PR's to certify.
• cargo clippy -p moq-net --features fuzz (lib and all targets) is clean after the CodeRabbit fix.

Caused by

No single PR identified; the shortcut predates the held-drop record it bypasses.

Follow-ups

None.

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Review

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• Head: 8ae5d7e

• Base: origin/main at e434699

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort

• Session: 01a1d344-762b-7d50-a451-c4b26e252740, round 1

• Score: 9/10, The unified start state preserves existing behavior and routes the live-edge shortcut through held-drop reporting, with no actionable regression found; builds and tests were not run as instructed.

• Findings: none

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No correctness issues found — one misplaced doc comment inline.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the full diff: the Start enum refactor of lite TrackRun, the past-live-edge shortcut now routed through resolve(), the regression test, and the quest doc cleanup.

• One start state — emit_range, start, first, and skipped collapse into Start { Legacy, Unresolved { first, skipped }, Resolved(u64) }. Every match keeps the old per-version behavior: Legacy never stores held drops or holds a first group, and forward's _ => arm is only reached once emits_range() has passed.
• resolve() is the only way out of Unresolved — I checked all four callers (start(), the shortcut, resolve_held from Recv::Finished, and unservable()). Each one is guarded on Unresolved, so the unreachable!("resolved once") can't fire.
• Past-live-edge shortcut — this path now sends the drops it held. Its SUBSCRIBE_START largest becomes live.max(peek_largest()), which matches the other resolve paths.
• JS parity — js/net/src/lite/publisher.ts already sends skipped at the top of its loop once startSequence is set (around L1676), so its shortcut (around L1844) didn't have this bug. No JS change is needed.
• Quest docs — deletes the finished quest and updates the links to it.

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Walkthrough

The Lite publisher replaces separate start-related fields with a Start state for legacy, unresolved, and resolved streams. Start resolution and range handling now use that state. Tests cover state transitions, skipped ranges, and a Lite07 request beyond the live edge. Quest documents remove the completed bookkeeping requirement and reference PR #8613.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 8ae5d

This change folds the lite start bookkeeping into one state and fixes the handling of a start past the live edge. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. The author notes the TLA+ model was not run.

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The title names the main change: lite TrackRun start state is consolidated into one enum, and a start past the live edge now names its held drops. It follows the conventional commit form and matches the objectives and the bug fix described in the PR. It is somewhat long at 86 characters, but it is specific and accurate.

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The description is specific and related to the changeset. It explains that lite TrackRun start state is consolidated into a Start enum (Legacy, Unresolved, Resolved), that resolve() is the only exit from Unresolved, and that a live-edge shortcut bug is fixed by routing through resolve(). It also covers validation, wire impact (none), and the removed lite-07 gate.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since 6d4c52c, which addresses the prior inline and CodeRabbit feedback.

• Doc comment restored — TrackRun's doc now sits directly above struct TrackRun instead of attaching to Start.
• Fuzz build fix — Start::resolved() and Start::skipped() are gated cfg(any(test, feature = "fuzz")), so CoverageBench compiles in non-test fuzz builds.

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