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6e361e05cc docs(sports): record B6 as done, and what running it found (#435)
* docs(sports): record where B6 stands, and why it is waiting

The phase table had B4 as "next" and B5 as "after B4" while both had shipped,
and described B6 as blocked on B4's gate — which is now merged and released. A
plan that misreports which phase it is in is worse than no plan: the next
person reads it and repeats finished work.

Corrected, and three things that were only ever decided in conversation are now
written down:

  * **B6 is deliberately held.** 3.2.0 published 2026-08-03; 3.1.0 ran nine
    months before it. B6's premise is that cores without the module are gone,
    and there is no release-asset count or install telemetry to show that.
    Running it now strands users on their current plugin versions. The gate
    that makes it safe is already built and tested — it is the calendar that is
    missing, and no amount of further code changes that.
  * **Stop adopting further shared modules** (data_sources, game_renderer,
    base_odds_manager) until B6 closes. Each adoption adds a copy to keep in
    step against a payoff contingent on B6.
  * **A B5 retrospective**, because "the adoption went fine" is not what
    happened: four of eight shipped with scroll mode broken on a 3.2.0 core.
    The bundled fallback did not protect against it — the break was on the
    modern path — which is an argument for the sunset, not against it. Records
    the ledger too: net negative on disk until B6 runs.

Also replaces the "what's next" list, whose first five items were all done,
with what actually remains.

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* docs(sports): stop a wrapped PR reference reading as a heading

A line wrapped onto "#433), the newest manifest entry ...", which
markdownlint reads as a malformed ATX heading (MD018). Reflowed so the
line starts with "(#431, #433)" instead.

Not the suggested fix: adding a space after the hash would have turned
the PR reference into "# 433". The B5 safety claim raised alongside this
was already corrected in ac44b5a.

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* docs(sports): scope the B5 safety claim to the fallback

The heading read "B5 — adoption is safe by construction", which this same
document disproves two sections later: four of the eight adopted plugins
shipped with scroll mode broken on a 3.2.0 core and were repaired in
plugins #251.

The body was already careful -- it says fallback compatibility is what is
guaranteed, and that correctness on a core which *does* ship the module
needs object-level and scroll-mode validation. The heading was not, and a
heading is what a reader scanning the plan actually takes away.

Retitled to name both halves, with a sentence up front saying why the
unqualified claim is false and pointing at the retrospective that shows
it. The phase intro said "one of them is safe by construction and the
other is not"; that now says what it actually means -- one cannot break a
user on an old core, the other can.

The second review point, MD018 on the ATX heading at line 409, does not
reproduce: that line now begins "(#431, #433)" rather than "#433)", so
there is no bare-hash heading. `grep -cE '^#+[^ #]'` returns 0 for the
whole file.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* docs(sports): re-check the hold, and close two items that are already done

The remaining-work list had two entries that finished without the doc noticing,
which is the failure mode this file exists to prevent.

- The stale plugin-test tranche is gone. run_plugin_tests.py --all now reports
  174 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed across the whole fleet. Recorded how to
  re-check it too: these are standalone scripts, not a pytest suite, and one
  calls sys.exit(1) at import, so pointing pytest at a plugin directory
  collapses into an INTERNALERROR that looks nothing like the real state.
- CLAUDE.md already says eight panel sizes.

That leaves the hardware soaks as the only open item needing work rather than
calendar time.

B6's prerequisite is now built -- core test/test_sports_sunset_matrix.py
(#505) -- so the phase table and the regression-test section say so, and the
two modelling traps it had to work through are recorded for whoever touches it
next: the copy-removed shape must be an unguarded import or the failure names
scroll_display_legacy instead of the core module, and only the leaf module may
be hidden because a pre-3.2.0 core still ships src/common/.

The hold itself is re-checked and unchanged: v3.2.0 is still latest,
__version__ is still 3.2.0, no 3.3.0, 23 days rather than the few months the
gate asks for. Also worth stating plainly -- the core updates by git pull, not
by downloading a release, so release-asset counts would not measure uptake even
if we had them. Whatever unblocks this has to come from the store side.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

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LEDMatrix Documentation

This directory contains guides, references, and architectural notes for the LEDMatrix project. If you are setting up a Pi for the first time, start with the project root README — it covers hardware, OS imaging, and the one-shot installer. The pages here go deeper.

I'm a new user

  1. GETTING_STARTED.md — first-time setup walkthrough
  2. WEB_INTERFACE_GUIDE.md — using the web UI
  3. PLUGIN_STORE_GUIDE.md — installing and managing plugins
  4. WIFI_NETWORK_SETUP.md — WiFi and AP-mode setup
  5. TROUBLESHOOTING.md — common issues and fixes
  6. SSH_UNAVAILABLE_AFTER_INSTALL.md — recovering SSH after install
  7. CONFIG_DEBUGGING.md — diagnosing config problems
  8. LOW_MEMORY_BOARDS.md — Pi Zero 2 W / 3B+ / 1GB Pi 4 memory limits

I want to write a plugin

Start here:

  1. PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE.md — end-to-end workflow
  2. PLUGIN_QUICK_REFERENCE.md — cheat sheet
  3. PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE.md — display, cache, and plugin-manager APIs
  4. PLUGIN_ERROR_HANDLING.md — error-handling patterns
  5. DEV_PREVIEW.md — preview plugins on your dev machine without a Pi
  6. EMULATOR_SETUP_GUIDE.md — running the matrix emulator

Going deeper:

Configuring plugins

Advanced features

Reference

Contributing to LEDMatrix itself

Archive

docs/archive/ holds older guides that have been superseded or describe features that have been removed. They are kept for historical context and git history but should not be relied on.

Contributing to the docs

  • Markdown only, professional tone, minimal emoji.
  • Prefer adding to an existing page over creating a new one. If you add a new page, link it from this index in the section it belongs to.
  • If a page becomes obsolete, move it to docs/archive/ rather than deleting it, so links don't rot.
  • Keep examples runnable — paths, commands, and config keys here should match what's actually in the repo.