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Triage of what still holds m2, and with it the 0.22.0 cut (quest/m3/release/cut.md). The rule applied: m2 keeps a quest only if it would need a breaking release had it landed right after the cut, meaning public Rust/JS/bindings API, lite-07-wip (which the cut freezes), the hang catalog JSON, a container format, or CLI/config/env. Quest files only.

Out of scope, as briefed: quests whose PRs are in or near the queue (flapping-publisher, fresh-publisher, route-exhaustive-sim, and the API/auth/audio quests), the mesh quests (moq-dev/moq#8756), join-backlog, and subscribe-ranges.

Analysis

Quest	Breaking?	Decision	Can start	Size
time-addressing/model	Yes: every Rust crate, moq-ffi, moq-c	Keep	In review: moq-dev/moq#8638 (conflicts with main)	XL, about S left
time-addressing/lite07	Yes: lite-07-wip GROUP, GROUP_END, SUBSCRIBE*	Keep, plus the E2EE draft wording	Once #8638 merges	M
time-addressing/js	Yes: @moq/net API and lite-07	Keep	Once lite07 merges	L
time-addressing/bindings	Yes: renames binding API sequence to start	Keep, shrunk to the rename	Once #8638 merges	M to S
time-addressing/consumers	No: #8638 does the Rust API breaks, and readers tolerate the markers' absence	Punt to m3	After js	L to M
time-addressing/e2ee	No: the nonce already binds the wire ID, which becomes the start	Remove, wording folded into lite07	n/a	n/a
time-addressing/ietf	No: changes only what goes to third-party moq-transport peers	Punt to m4	After the cut	S
catalog-at-timestamp	Yes: rs/hang and js/hang return the stamp, and the draft defines what lite-07 catalogs mean	Keep, drop its js wait	Once #8638 merges	S
group-drops	Yes: track::Ordered's item type	Split: the API stays here	Once #8638 merges	M to S
group-drops-wire (new)	Maybe: SUBSCRIBE_DROP for a stopped group on lite-07	Keep, gates the freeze	Now	M
lite07-finalize	Yes: the freeze itself	Keep, with a one-off Chromium 158 check in place of the pin	Last	S
cluster-routes/switch	Yes: lite-07-wip route wire	Keep	In review: moq-dev/moq#8731 (draft)	XL, about S left
cluster-routes/interest-set	No on its own (crate-private router, TLA+)	Keep: route-stream needs it	In review: moq-dev/moq#8728 (draft, 2 open review findings)	L, about S left
cluster-routes/route-stream	Yes: lite-07-wip announce streams	Keep	Once #8731 and #8728 merge	XL
cluster-routes/acceptance	No: tests and retired mitigations	Keep (maintainer pick): gates the cut per the 2026-10-13 rule	Once #8731 merges, beside route-stream	L
cluster-routes/request-loop	No: fixture plus request-state fix, no wire field	Punt to m3 (cluster-routing epic)	After the m2 routes epic	M
cluster-routes/playwright-pin	No: toolchain bump	Punt to m1; the release cut requires it	Once NixOS/nixpkgs#585789 reaches unstable	S

Critical path to the cut

Two chains run in parallel, and the freeze waits on both:

• Time addressing: feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638 (finish review) → lite07 (M) → js (L) → lite07-finalize (S).
• Routes: lite-07 sessions run the path router #8731 and feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728 (finish review) → route-stream (XL) → lite07-finalize, with acceptance (L) running beside route-stream from the day lite-07 sessions run the path router #8731 merges, since it requires only the switch.

After the open PRs land, time addressing has M + L left. Routes has route-stream's XL, with acceptance's L in parallel. Some of acceptance's session fixtures will need rework once route-stream moves the announce streams, so routes is now slightly the longer chain. route-stream is the largest single item still unstarted, so landing #8731 and #8728 is as urgent as landing #8638. Off the critical path: group-drops-wire (M, now); bindings, catalog-at-timestamp, and group-drops (S each, after #8638). Each fits inside lite07 + js.

Recommended start order

1. Now: iterate feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638, lite-07 sessions run the path router #8731, and feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728 to merge, and start group-drops-wire, the one newly ready quest.
2. When feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638 merges: lite07 first (critical), then bindings, catalog-at-timestamp, and group-drops in parallel.
3. When lite-07 sessions run the path router #8731 merges: acceptance. When lite-07 sessions run the path router #8731 and feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728 have both merged: route-stream (critical).
4. When lite07 merges: js (critical).
5. When all of the above land: lite07-finalize, then the cut.

Spare capacity then goes to m3's request-loop, which can start once the m2 routes epic is done.

Decisions

Maintainer picks (2026-11-14, /quest-complete), recorded in the affected quests' Plans:

• ✅ Merge.
• route-stream and interest-set: ✅ keep in m2 (rejected: move to lite-08). See decision 7.
• cluster-routes/acceptance: ✅ keep in m2, gating the cut, per the 2026-10-13 rule (rejected: move it to m3 and fix late routing flaws in lite-08). This overrides decision 1: the move is reverted, and acceptance stays in the cluster-routes epic.
• The other moves stand as recommended.

Every choice here was taken under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. Each is recorded in the quests it touches and in m2's README. The maintainer has since picked on decisions 1 and 7, above.

1. Route acceptance to m3's cluster-routing epic. Overridden by the maintainer: it stays in m2. It is tests, fixtures, benchmarks, and retiring mitigations, with no wire or API change. Accepted risk: a flaw it finds in lite-07's route rules (including item 30's keep-alive, dispute-wheel, and return tests) is fixed in lite-08, or in the doubt timer and keep-alives, which are local. This reverses lite07-finalize's 2026-10-13 rule that routes' tier and partition tests run before the cut. Rejected: keeping it in m2, so the freeze waits on an L of tests; m4 with the other tests, since the moq.pro lite-07 rollout waits on this proof.
2. ✅ The request loop to m3's cluster-routing epic. It adds no wire field, because the hop count was already rejected, so it is a bug fix in shipped code. Rejected: m2.
3. ✅ The Playwright pin to m1, gating the release cut instead of lite07-finalize. The cut PR's interop lane runs with CI_STRICT (.github/workflows/interop.yml:131), which fails the route key lane on a Chromium below 158 (test/interop/clients/js/route-key.ts:50), so quest/m3/release/cut.md now requires the pin (CodeRabbit's finding). lite07-finalize runs the lane once on npm's Playwright 1.65.0 (Chromium 158) before the rename, as an early signal that the Route Key transcript holds before it freezes. Rejected: keeping the pin in m2, where the freeze would also wait on nixpkgs; dropping the early check; m4 or m5, which would hold a ready S bump behind the cut, or behind the next wire cut.
4. ✅ Consumers to m3, rewritten to what remains, resized L to M. feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638 already converts the Rust consumers whose API named group numbers (CLI --group, relay /fetch?group=, moq-mux seek, moq-hls, moq-archive, moq-transcode), and @moq/hang's Read.group keeps its name. Dropping hang's empty duration frames and discontinuity groups is tolerated by deployed readers (the 2026-10-25 decision). It now also requires lite07, since GROUP_END carries the end the duration marker did. Rejected: keeping it in m2; splitting out a breaking part, since none is left.
5. ✅ ietf to m4, not m3. The verbatim group ID, the only part this cut needs, rides the model. The rest changes only what third-party moq-transport peers get, has no named consumer, and AGENTS.md ranks it low. Rejected: m3, where the cut's re-split would keep a moq-transport wire change in the next cycle's wire phase; m2; deleting it, since dropping our TIMESTAMP property deletes code and the gap signal is cheap.
6. ✅ Remove e2ee and fold its draft wording into lite07. On feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638, rs/moq-crypto/src/e2ee/group.rs already feeds the nonce self.start, and both cores feed it the group's wire ID, so the nonce bytes never change. Only drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-e2ee.md's "group sequences" wording goes stale, and lite07's rename outdates it. Rejected: keeping it as an XS quest in m3; keeping it in m2.
7. ✅ Interest-set and route-stream stay in m2. route-stream is a lite-07 wire change. Without it, lite-07 freezes with one router key per announce stream, a shape the route model (one neighbour per session) doesn't check. lite-07 would also keep the reopen-and-hand-over machinery (AnnouncePrefix::reopen, Routed::hand_over) and its uncertifiable multi-region scopes for its whole life. interest-set breaks nothing alone, but route-stream requires it, and no quest may require a later milestone. Rejected: moving both to lite-08 (m3), which saves about an XL but costs exactly that.
8. ✅ Split group-drops. Its lite-07 wire question (does a stopped group need SUBSCRIBE_DROP, or can eviction wait for the header?) reads no group key, so it becomes quest/m2/group-drops-wire.md. That quest starts now and replaces group-drops in lite07-finalize's Required. The public Ordered Gap item stays as group-drops (S), after the model, and also waits on the wire half, since the benchmark's cells finish only then. Rejected: one quest, which holds a lite-07 wire question until feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638 lands.
9. ✅ catalog-at-timestamp waits only on the model. A catalog's stamp is its frame's timestamp (moq-json's Timed.at), which @moq/net frames already carry. Nothing reads a group start. Rejected: keeping the js wait, which would put this S behind js's L.
10. ✅ bindings shrinks from M to S. On feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638, every binding's timestamps are already required and each group field already holds the start. moq-ffi still calls it sequence (consumer.rs, media.rs), so what remains is a rename across the bindings and their docs. It stays in m2 because the cut would otherwise publish a sequence that holds a start.

Notes for the open PRs

• moq-dev/moq#8638 adds quest/m2/time-addressing/layered-runs.md (S, no API or wire change). By this rule it belongs in m4 (internal cleanup) or m3, not m2, where it would gate the cut.
• This PR edits Related links in switch.md and flapping-publisher.md, which moq-dev/moq#8731 and moq-dev/moq#8734 delete. Whichever lands second resolves a modify/delete conflict by keeping the deletion.

Impact

Public API: none. Wire: none. Quest files only.

Validation

• quest check: 502 documents ok.
• quest unblocked quest/m2/group-drops-wire.md reports it ready.
• Claims about feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638 were checked against its head: the file list (588 files, via the REST API), the e2ee nonce in rs/moq-crypto/src/e2ee/group.rs, sequence in rs/moq-ffi/src, @moq/hang's Read in js/hang/api/container.api.md, and moq-mux's marker writers, which still exist.

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: ba30d08

• Base: origin/main at be083e7

• Risk: medium, the base has no RISK.md to name what is always high or customer-facing, so every change is medium

• Classified: medium by default

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

• Session: 01a1dbb5-502d-7f53-abb9-e9b2c0710d4d, round 3

• Score: 10/10, The incremental planning changes correctly preserve the Playwright release prerequisite and existing CLI names, with no actionable defects found by source inspection.

• Rounds: 3; first round 0; findings 0: fixed 0, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — the full diff of this quest-only triage, plus a grep for dangling links to the moved or removed quest paths (none found).

• Moves out of m2 — acceptance and request-loop go to m3, consumers to m3, ietf-time-addressing to m4, and playwright-pin to m1. Each has a dated rationale, and inbound links were updated (switch.md, flapping-publisher.md, federation.md, cluster-fault-schedules.md, ietf-range-fetch.md, routes-browser-proof.md, cluster-routes README items 28–30).
• group-drops split — new group-drops-wire.md holds the lite-07 wire question and gates the freeze in lite07-finalize. group-drops.md shrinks to the Ordered API (S) and requires the wire half.
• e2ee removal — the quest is deleted and its draft wording folded into lite07.md. The m5 e2ee README now points at the model and lite07.
• Resizes and dependency edits — bindings go from M to S, consumers from L to M (now also requiring lite07), and catalog-at-timestamp drops its js wait.
• lite07-finalize — the one-off Chromium 158 route key check replaces the Playwright pin wait.

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Walkthrough

The quest updates move routing acceptance, request-loop work, and time-addressing consumers to later milestones. They split group-drop work between the Ordered API and a separate wire investigation, and revise lite-07 cut prerequisites. The documents also update routing decisions, time-addressing plans, and links between quests. No exported or public entity declarations change.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 22f35

This PR only reorganizes planning documents, so it has no direct effect on users. Before merging, the lite-07 cut plan should state that the release PR needs the Playwright bump from m1, the archive migration path should be documented, and two contradictory passages in the m3 quests should be corrected.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Description check		The description is specific to the changeset. It states the triage rule for m2 quests, lists the moved, split, removed, and resized quests, and names the open PRs and critical path. It also records va…

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Minor · Remove the conflicting pre-cut requirement. · acceptance.md:89-90

quest/m3/cluster-routing/acceptance.md:89-90
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Remove the conflicting pre-cut requirement.

The new plan moves these checks to m3 and reverses the pre-cut rule. This paragraph still says the checks belong before lite-07 finalization. Update it so the quest gives one release order.

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Review comment at @quest/m3/cluster-routing/acceptance.md around lines 89 - 90:
Update the paragraph about tiered-cluster and partition/healing end-to-end checks to reflect the new m3 release order: place these checks after lite-07 can be finalized, and remove the conflicting requirement that they happen beforehand.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m2/lite07-finalize.md:
- Around line 138-140: Update the release-gate instructions around the route-key
lane to require the Playwright bump from m1 before the release PR can pass,
either by making the cut wait for that bump or requiring it to land before the
release PR. Keep the manual route-key run as an early signal only; do not
present it as a substitute for the release gate’s browser requirement.

Review comments at @quest/m3/time-addressing-consumers.md:
- Around line 18-19: Update the m3 quest’s CLI guidance to remove the `--group`
flag rename and correct the Public API claim: `moq fetch` keeps the `--group`
flag, while only the value’s meaning changes to identify the group that starts
at that value in the track’s timescale. Leave archive-key renames unchanged.
- Line 20: Document in the Impact section or the archive migration guidance how
readers will handle recordings created before moq-archive keys change to
start-based values; first establish the chosen compatibility path, such as
version-gated reads or a new recording version with legacy-reader support, and
ensure old recordings are not read using the new key semantics.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @quest/m3/cluster-routing/acceptance.md:
- Around line 89-90: Update the paragraph about tiered-cluster and
partition/healing end-to-end checks to reflect the new m3 release order: place
these checks after lite-07 can be finalized, and remove the conflicting
requirement that they happen beforehand.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since the prior pullfrog review (22f3565 → c639224), which records the maintainer's picks.

• Route acceptance stays in m2 — the move to m3 is reverted. It gates the cut again, per the 2026-10-13 rule that routes' tier and partition tests run before it.
• Links and notes updated to match — lite07-finalize, the m2 README, route-stream, and interest-set now record the maintainer decisions. Inbound links in federation and cluster-fault-schedules point back to the m2 path, and nothing references the old m3 path.

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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at c639224 because kixelated removed it (manual).

Its head has moved to ba30d08 since, and a push by anyone but the land fixer ends the pick: the watcher leaves this pull request alone until a maintainer enqueues it again.

(written by quest land watch)

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes since the prior review (c639224):

• Release cut requires the Playwright pin: quest/m3/release/cut.md, playwright-pin.md, lite07-finalize.md and the m2 README now say the pin gates the cut (its CI_STRICT interop lane needs Chromium 158), while lite07-finalize keeps a one-off early check.
• Consumers keep --group names: quest/m3/time-addressing-consumers.md no longer renames the CLI flag or relay /fetch?group=, since m3 cannot break callers.

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