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docs(73): document seasonal / date-conditional scheduling (already implemented)
fixes #73

#73's premise ("ErsatzTV has no native date-conditional scheduling today")
is false. The predicate (IAlternateScheduleItem) is shipped on both engines,
evaluated by AlternateScheduleSelector, reachable from the SPA, and already
unit-tested — so the only real gap was discoverability, and it was a docs gap:
the mechanism was documented as a mechanism, never as a task.

- channels.md: task-shaped "Recipe: seasonal / holiday programming" for both
  engines, plus the gotchas — chiefly that blank StartYear/EndYear is what
  makes a range repeat every year (AlternateScheduleSelector.cs:32-40), that
  the override branch needs BOTH years, and that explicit years disable
  wrap-around detection.
- domain-model.md: glossary row (mirrors the #77 "already exists" row).
- decisions.md: entry recording the verdict and the rejected asks — notably
  that "prioritize collection X during a date range" is #70's weighting
  problem, not a second primitive built here while #70 is mid-flight.

No production code changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 09:20:05 +02:00
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docs/ — reading order

Purpose: index of docs/ so a fresh contributor/agent knows what to read and in what order. Update this doc in the same PR that adds, removes, or retitles a doc below.

Read in this order at session start:

  1. CLAUDE.md (repo root) — project intro: architecture, layout, dev commands, conventions.
  2. docs/contributing.md — established code patterns (CQRS/MediatR, LanguageExt, the ChicoryTV SPA, EF Core dual-provider migrations, FFmpeg pipeline, analyzers, testing). Read before any non-trivial change.
  3. docs/domain-model.md — what the app IS: entity glossary, channel→playout→schedule/block concept map, where each concept is edited in the SPA.
  4. docs/api-conventions.md — checklist for adding/changing a /api/* endpoint (controllers, DTOs, error mapping, auth, OpenAPI regen, tests).
  5. docs/spa-conventions.md — playbook for adding a screen to the ChicoryTV React SPA.
  6. docs/e2e-local.md (+ scripts/e2e-local.sh) — how to run a live local instance for manual or Playwright-MCP verification.
  7. docs/testing.md — testing map: what each *.Tests project / web suite covers, golden-file nets, the timezone-independence rule, how to run subsets, the per-PR verification gate.
  8. docs/blazor-route-parity.md — historical record of the completed #91 phase (b) cutover: the Blazor Server UI is removed and every legacy route now 302-redirects to its SPA equivalent (or falls through to the catch-all → /app). Read it for the full legacy→SPA route inventory.
  9. docs/decisions.md — append-only "why" log. Check here before challenging an existing convention. Start from its Index, which links the four topic files under docs/decisions/ (large same-topic clusters) and lists the remaining in-file entries.
  10. docs/ci-cd.md — build/test/release pipeline, versioning, dependency management.

Also present in docs/:

  • docs/rest-api.md — REST API design doc for ersatztv#2 (goals, conventions, per-slice plan). Largely superseded day-to-day by docs/api-conventions.md; read this for the original rationale.
  • docs/channels.md — Channel entity field reference.
  • docs/m3u-xmltv.md — M3U/XMLTV generation overview (ChannelPlaylist, GetChannelGuideHandler).
  • docs/fork-strategy.md — divergence policy vs upstream ErsatzTV.
  • docs/design-sync.md — Claude Design ↔ repo screen workflow (#92).
  • docs/endpoint-index.md — generated REST endpoint index (method/path/operationId/summary per OpenAPI tag). Do not edit by hand; regenerated by scripts/generate-endpoint-index.py / scripts/update-openapi.sh.
  • docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md — static session kickoff prompt + workflow lore. Queue state (goal, arc, what's in flight/next) lives in the pinned Gitea tracker ersatztv#237 — read that, not this file, for current state (protocol: decisions.md 2026-07-11).
  • docs/handoffs/rest-api.md — original handoff prompt for kicking off the REST API work (#2).