v4 was always just the server-dependent programme (group rides, accounts, paid backup) plus V3-17. Renaming it to ROADMAP since it's about to become the home for an incoming list of bugs and features that need triage ahead of the next v3-style ticket batch -- that triage takes priority over the existing server-dependent items, none of which are blocking.
Per request: V3-08's routing-engine direction is decided (self-hosted OSRM over a hosted API or the public demo instance) but standing one up is split into its own ticket, V3-17, since provisioning a server is different work from the app code that calls it. V3-08 and V3-09 are marked Deferred pending V3-17.
V3-17 also names a real tension worth flagging rather than quietly ignoring: this backlog's own organizing principle is 'v3 is everything buildable with no server,' and a self-hosted OSRM instance is a server -- so V3-08/V3-09 sit oddly under docs/v3/ once V3-17 exists. Left unresolved by design (a documentation call for later), noted in both V3-17 and BACKLOG.md's v4 section rather than silently renumbering tickets that are already cross-referenced throughout the docs.
One file per feature, in the v2 shape that worked: goal, context, design,
implementation, acceptance criteria, tests, risks, out of scope -- written before
implementing so the risks are on paper rather than walked into.
Three carry more weight than their size suggests. V3-01 ships the port's first
real migration, and since the destructive fallback is gone, getting addColumn and
a v1-database test right matters more than the feature. V3-08 forces a
routing-engine decision with ongoing cost, so it sits behind a RoutingService
interface mirroring what LocationSource did for GPS. V3-13 is not code at all --
it answers the three questions open since v2, and V3-15 may close unbuilt as a
result, which is a legitimate outcome.
Several tickets record constraints that are easy to lose: no activity picker in
front of Start, because the founding premise is press-and-go with gloves; the
Route-to-Trip foreign key must not cascade, or deleting an old plan deletes the
ride; V3-14 will deliberately break the parity harness by adding GPX <type>, and
that expectation should be updated rather than the check dropped; and V3-16 must
not regress the explicit text colours that exist because of the black-on-black bug.
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Route drawing promoted to a full section. The key point is that road-snapped
shortest path needs a routing engine, and that is the whole decision -- OSRM,
GraphHopper or Valhalla self-hosted, or commercial with a key in the app.
Profiles matter more than usual here, since a motorcycle route and a bicycle
route between the same pins genuinely differ, which is where activity type pays
off. Also flagged that a routing engine's ETA is based on posted limits, not on
how fast the rider actually goes -- and the app already stores enough history to
do better.
Group rides, accounts and paid cloud backup moved out to a new v4 section. They
are one programme, not three: each needs a server, identity and a privacy stance,
and none is worth building alone. Recorded that live positions want a websocket
alongside the existing batched uploader rather than replacing it, since the batch
path is what guarantees no fix is lost -- and that location sharing is a consent
question, not a feature.
Renamed V3-BACKLOG.md to BACKLOG.md, since it now covers both, and made the
split explicit up front: v3 is everything buildable with no server, v4 is
everything that cannot be. That means v3 can proceed indefinitely without anyone
deciding to run infrastructure or hold other people's location data.
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