Glimesh / Glimesh/waveguide

Figure out the right way to cancel in progress work

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architecture enhancement good first issue
Dominant language
Go
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Forks
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Description

A live stream can stop (for whatever reason) either from the Protocol / Input layer, or from the Control layer. This bi-directional cancellation is currently a mess, and there's some hacky code in place to make it work.

### Reasons for Cancellation
* Control
* Service / Orchestrator failure (unexpected or expected)
* Control shutdown
* Protocol / Input
* Specific disconnect request
* Network io error

### Options
It seems like [context](https://pkg.go.dev/context) may be appropriate for this, however I don't have a ton of experience using it.

Alternatively, depending on the Control architecture, we could use callbacks -- though that's not very "go" like.

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Research direction

Start by mapping the existing cancellation paths between the Protocol/Input layer and the Control layer, including each listed shutdown, disconnect, and network-error reason. Review Go's context documentation alongside the current hacky cancellation behavior, then define and validate one consistent bidirectional approach that covers all listed cases.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
audio-video-rtc, backend
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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