Roadmap item #3. An RFC's main view now carries a discussion surface
distinct from PR comments and from branch chat. The substrate is the
existing threads/thread_messages tables — rows with branch_name IS NULL
scope to the RFC's main view; the schema already permitted that shape,
v0.5.0 is the first build to write it. Five new endpoints under
/api/rfcs/<slug>/discussion/..., a new RFCDiscussionPanel right-column
component used when branchParam === main, SPEC §10.10 settling
discussion-vs-contribution, and §17 listing the new routes. Notification
routing reuses the existing chat_message_in_participated_thread /
chat_reply_to_my_message event kinds with branch_name=null on the
fan-out row; a distinct event_kind is a §19.2 candidate. Anonymous
viewers can read; writes require contributor — v0.6.0's item #4 will
harden adjacent gates. No schema migration; minor bump, no operator
action required beyond rebuild and restart.
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SPEC, DEV docs, and code comments still talked about the codebase as
a rewrite-in-progress against an external prototype. With v1 shipped
the framing reads oddly — it implies code is provisional when it's
the production thing. Recast §18 as "the technical stack," strip
"carryover from the prototype" comments across backend (api.py,
chat.py, providers.py) and frontend (DiffView, PromptBar,
SelectionTooltip, modelStyles), and rework SPEC §1 / §18 to introduce
OHM up front rather than as a follow-on to a prototype reference.
Also:
- RUNBOOK: bump Python prereq to 3.11+ to match the production VM
(was 3.13).
- Remove IMPLEMENTATION-PROMPT.md — the original implementation brief
is no longer load-bearing.
- Add deploy/DEPLOY-NEW-SESSION-PROMPT.md as the durable
deploy-handoff prompt for new sessions.
Per the §19.1 brief: the three-column shape (§8.1) opens on main
in discuss mode (§8.2), supports the §8.3 discuss-vs-contribute
flip on non-main branches, hosts §8.4's per-branch chat with AI
participation (§18's <change> protocol → §8.14 changes rows), the
§8.8 change-card panel with §8.9 accept/decline/edit-before-accept,
the §8.10 tracked-change markup + DiffView toggle, the §8.11
manual-edit flushes with the stale-change mechanic, the §8.12
range and paragraph sub-threads, the §8.13 flag affordance, and
the §8.14 discuss-mode buffer.
Backend: bot.py grew per-RFC-repo write ops (cut_branch_from_main,
commit_accepted_change with the structured original/proposed/reason
body and Change-Id + Source-Message-Id + On-behalf-of trailers,
commit_manual_flush, ensure_rfc_repo_seed). cache.py grew
refresh_rfc_repo and the webhook dispatches on repository.full_name.
providers.py and chat.py port the §18 carryovers — multi-provider
LLM abstraction and SSE-streaming chat against the §5 threads /
thread_messages / changes schema. api_branches.py mounts the §17
branches/<branch>/* and threads/<thread_id>/* routes with the §6
/ §11 permission checks inline.
Frontend: RFCView.jsx rebuilt as the §8 surface; Editor.jsx,
ChatPanel.jsx, ChangePanel.jsx, PromptBar.jsx, SelectionTooltip.jsx,
DiffView.jsx, ModelPicker.jsx, modelStyles.js lifted from the
prototype and adapted to the canonical schema.
Covered by `backend/tests/test_rfc_view_vertical.py` — eleven new
integration tests against an extended FakeGitea (PUT contents,
POST orgs/{org}/repos, seed_rfc_repo): main-view read,
promote-to-branch, accept (with and without edit-before-accept),
decline, manual flush + system message, flag creation, visibility
flip, anonymous read-but-no-contribute, stale-change refusal, and
the chat-streaming path with a fake provider injected. The 5
Slice 1 tests continue to pass alongside.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ben Stull