The line-by-line web translator reordered words inside `**bold**` spans and
misplaced/dropped the markers, producing `**LB` or `****` (empty bold). Mask
each `**...**` as ONE atomic sentinel: translate the inner text on its own,
then store the whole balanced `**inner**` — the engine never sees the markers
and cannot reorder or collapse them. Also harden the anthropic prompt to keep
emphasis balanced.
Auto-prune: after translating, delete generated docs/ru files whose docs/en
source no longer exists (renamed/removed) and drop now-empty dirs, so the tree
mirrors docs/en 1:1 (removes the stale development/modules.md and
guides/geoip-and-device-detection.md).
Bump PROMPT_VERSION to 6 to invalidate the contaminated cache and regenerate
docs/ru (0 broken bold spans remaining, aside from pre-existing multi-line
bold that spans a soft line break).
Fix Markdown-mangling artifacts the free web engine (yandex) produced in the
committed docs/ru, and regenerate the whole tree cleanly (0 fallbacks):
- Sentinel format @@N@@ -> {N}. MT engines are trained to preserve curly
format-string placeholders, so {N} survives code-heavy lines where @@N@@ (and
ZZZ…ZZZ, which also duplicated its Z) were split/moved — e.g. the stray
"@0@@" in the FAQ and "load balancerZ" in the README are gone.
- Possessive: a trailing English `'s` is consumed INTO the masked span and
dropped on restore. Every sentinel format breaks when a bare `'s` sits right
after it, and Russian has no possessive `'s`.
- Validate + retry: after restore, any leftover brace fragment triggers a retry
(the engine is non-deterministic); after a few failures the line stays English
so a broken token is never emitted.
- Glossary += KeyDB, yt-dlp, Ubuntu, iptables, MAGSCAN.
Regenerated docs/ru (37 files, translators/yandex): no residual sentinels,
mkdocs build --strict clean.
CI translation was slow, so move it out of GitHub Actions: docs/ru is now a
committed, generated tree refreshed LOCALLY before a release; CI only builds it.
- pages.yml: drop the setup-python/cache/translate steps — the workflow now just
installs the build toolchain and runs `mkdocs build --strict` on the committed
en+ru trees.
- .gitignore: stop ignoring docs/ru (now committed); keep site/ + .docs-cache/.
- Split deps: docs/requirements.txt = build only (mkdocs-material, static-i18n,
used by CI); tools/docs/requirements.txt = translators (local-only).
- Makefile: docs-venv installs both; docs-build/docs-serve no longer translate
(translation is the deliberate `make docs-translate` release step).
- updates_checklist.md: new "Regenerate translated documentation" step
(make docs-translate + docs-build, commit docs/ru with the release commit).
- Commit the generated docs/ru (37 files, translators/yandex).
Rule: edit ONLY docs/en; docs/ru is generated — never hand-edit it.
Replace the hand-maintained Docsify site (parallel docs/en + docs/ru trees
that had already drifted) with a MkDocs Material build where English is the
single source of truth and Russian is generated at build time.
Engine & structure
- mkdocs.yml: Material theme, site_url for the /XC_VM/ Pages subpath, and a
two-tab information architecture — User Guide (administration, API/Swagger,
UI translations, diagnostics, info/FAQ) vs Developer Guide (architecture,
workflow, security, integrations, build). Files are NOT moved — the split is
nav-only, so URLs and cross-links stay stable.
- mkdocs-static-i18n (folder mode): English at root, Russian under /ru/, with a
language switcher. `mkdocs build --strict` validates every link/anchor.
Translation pipeline (tools/docs/translate.py)
- Engine-agnostic via DOCS_TRANSLATE_PROVIDER: translators (free, no API key —
default), anthropic, deepl, or noop. Per-file sha256 cache so only changed
English files are re-translated. Markdown-safe: code, URLs, HTML tags and
glossary terms (XC_VM, FFmpeg, HLS, ...) are masked and never translated.
A file whose translation fails falls back to English so the build never breaks.
- docs/ru is generated and gitignored — never committed. It is produced locally
(`make docs-serve` / `docs-build`) and in CI.
CI & tooling
- pages.yml: build-then-upload (setup-python -> install -> restore .docs-cache
with restore-keys -> translate -> mkdocs build --strict -> deploy), replacing
the verbatim docs/ upload.
- Makefile: docs-venv / docs-translate / docs-build / docs-serve.
- docs/requirements.txt; .gitignore for docs/ru, site/, .docs-cache.
Migration details
- Removed Docsify control files (index.html, _navbar.md, _sidebar.md, .nojekyll)
and de-Docsify-ed body links in 6 English files (en-us/ aliases -> relative,
swagger _media paths, stripped ':ignore' link syntax).
- Preserved the two Russian-only planning docs (no English source) by moving
them into docs/adr/ as *.ru.md (repo-internal, excluded from the site).
The panel is deeply coupled to TMDb (VOD import, player metadata, admin
search, two crons), so shipping it as an uninstallable module only added
failure modes: after the move to hash-suffixed dirs (tmdb_f4e6e) every
hardcoded `Modules/tmdb/lib/...` require broke, and 2.3.3 crons died with
"Failed opening required TmdbClient.php".
tmdb -> core:
- Vendored \TMDB client -> src/Infrastructure/Tmdb/lib/; the only loader
is TmdbApiService::requireLibrary() (now public, also loads Release.php).
- TmdbApiService -> XcVm\Infrastructure\Tmdb — composer-autoloaded in every
bootstrap context, no module boot required (player scope never booted
modules, so module-namespace classes were unreachable there).
- TmdbCron / TmdbPopularCron -> XcVm\Domain\Vod; cron jobs -> Cli/CronJobs
(picked up by the console.php scan; command names cron:tmdb and
cron:tmdb_popular are unchanged).
- TmdbController -> Public/Controllers/Admin; tmdb_search / tmdb api
actions registered in routes/admin.php (same dispatchApi fallback).
- Domain/Vod services and player_functions.php load the lib through
TMDbService::requireLibrary() instead of hardcoded module paths.
- tmdb removed from config/bundled_modules.php. ModuleLoader gains
CORE_PROVIDED_MODULES: released watch/plex archives still declare
"dependencies": ["tmdb"] — such deps are stripped during manifest
normalization and in ModuleManager::listModules().
- syncBundledModules() purges stale on-disk tmdb module dirs and their
config/modules.php state on upgraded panels, so the old copy cannot boot
alongside the core implementation and collide on command names.
Standard-set provisioning fix (root cause of the "Undefined variable $db"
errors from watch/plex settings views on 2.3.3):
- Production still ran watch_e6c86/plex_20cd9-less legacy copies migrated
from 2.3.2 with generated hash_ids; provisionStandardSet() treated any
same-name directory as "already on disk" and never fetched the pinned
1.0.2/1.0.1 releases that contain the fix. A same-name directory whose
identity does not match the pinned hash_id is now considered stale: it
is deleted and the pinned release is installed in its place.
- installModuleFromSource(): when the module is already recorded as
installed (files re-provisioned over a stale copy), run updateModule()
(incremental from->to migrations) instead of re-running the initial
install.
Overhaul the Docsify documentation (English + Russian) so it matches the current
codebase and follows one consistent pattern.
Content accuracy (post-migration):
- Rewrite development/autoloader.md to PSR-4 / Composer (the old XC_Autoloader
scanner, igbinary tmp/cache/autoload_map and registerDirectories are gone).
- PascalCase every source path (src/core -> src/Core, domain/Stream, cli/Commands,
public/Controllers, Infrastructure/Redis, ...) across all docs.
- Replace the removed autoload.php references with vendor/autoload.php
(build_system, bootstrap-contexts, error-handling, modules).
- ssl-generation: note that the installer now auto-generates a unique self-signed
certificate before Nginx starts.
Common pattern (Clean & uniform):
- Strip emoji from headings; remove the in-page Navigation blocks (the Docsify
sidebar already provides navigation).
- One H1 + intro per doc; uniform "Related files" / "Связанные файлы" section,
added to the code-centric docs that lacked it.
Structure:
- Remove the empty stray docs/api/; move updates_checklist.md into builds/;
link the previously-orphaned ucs-integration.md.
- Regroup the sidebars (split the oversized guides group into Developer Guides /
Security & Access / Integrations; fold builds into Build & Release).
Augment:
- dev-workflow: Local Setup (make dev-tools) + Quality Checks (phpstan, cs, gates).
- build_system: Composer Dependencies section (committed prod-only vendor,
committed lock, dev tools via composer install, no build-time vendor step).
en/ru parity:
- Apply the same structure, fixes and pattern to docs/ru/ (translated), including
a new Russian ucs-integration.md. The en and ru file sets are now identical.
Covers: how the autoloader works, adding new classes, cache
invalidation, manual registration (addClass), adding new directories,
naming rules, duplicate resolution, and debugging.
Sidebar links added to both language versions of the Docsify site.