OrbitTv/docs/VERIFICATION-0.103.0.md

0.103.0: story grouping on Heroes (Living Network Stage E, first channel)

Step 3 of Paul's agreed order: story grouping on more channels, one at a time.

Why Heroes first: of the weighted channels, Heroes had the most broken stories. Its committed week has 119 story parts and none of them sit next to their other parts.

Weighted channel	Stories in its pool	Story parts this week	Parts aired together
Heroes 602	84	119	0
Orbit X 603	158	46	0
Vortex 601	169	36	0
Orbit 1 101	144	21	0
Evidence 107	190	11	0

The change: storyGrouping = true for 602, through StoryGroupingChannels. The rule is the same one Paradox uses since 0.99.13, and is described in StoryGroups.kt.

Checks

• 467 unit tests run, 0 failures; lint clean.
• Four-week replay from the box's plans and pools at 18:27 today. Every fingerprint is identical to 0.102.0 except Heroes, and Heroes' committed bookings are unchanged (kept=true).
• Heroes over the four weeks (1,807 new programmes):

	0.102.0	0.103.0
Story openers followed by part 2	0	157
Openers left hanging	160	6
Later parts aired alone	194	5
Same episode again within 7 days	91	88

The show mix barely moves (Justice League 150 → 152, Teen Titans 151 → 149).

The 11 parts left apart are the library's own numbering, not the rule:

• Batman: The Animated Series: The Cat and the Claw is numbered E1 and E8, and Robin's Reckoning E51 and E53. They aren't consecutive, so the rule correctly won't treat them as stories.
• Spider-Man: Six Forgotten Warriors (1) has no part 2 next to it in the library.
• Justice League: one part 2 continues a part 1 that was already booked before the replay.

APK: outputs/revision-0.103.0, signed. Not installed.

Installed on the box (4 November 2026, 18:57)

Paul said "yes, install please".

• Snapshot first: the 194 schedule-folder files and orbit_settings.xml were copied to Codex/install-0.103.0-20261104-185708, and on the box to no_backup/schedule-rollback-0.102.0.
• Install: versionCode 152.
• Top-ups: 8 channels topped up with added=0 clashes=0 before Paul switched to another app. The rest, Heroes included, top up the next time Orbit is opened.
• Bookings: every booking still to air was kept.
• Heroes' first grouped stories: these come from the next top-up's new bookings, about a week out, because existing bookings aren't rewritten.