home: needs you becomes two groups — the questions that stopped something, then the landings to check

[santoshkumarradha]

Part of #884. Lane H of the home-and-tasks wave — option A for the needs you panel.

What was true

needs you drew three sources as one flat list, oldest first. Every landing carried the
same sub-line — landed unchecked · enter to look, nine words repeated on nine rows — so
nine items were eighteen lines and pushed where you were off a forty-row frame. A live
consent question sorted UNDER week-old landings. A landing wore the amber ?, which means
stopped on you, over work that had already finished. And the same landing could be drawn
twice on one panel, and again in since you left.

What is true now

One panel, two groups. needs you is the live questions — a conversation stopped on a
question or a consent card, a watch that needs somebody — longest wait first, wearing the
mark. Under them a dim group line, to check · N at the left and
finished, nobody has checked it at the right, holding every task whose call is the
person's, newest first, one line each: the name, N files · age. The row under the
cursor grows a second line — the report's first sentence and the task's own two answers.

 needs you · 1
  tell me when CI goes red on master                     1m
   May I re-run the typecheck job to see whether it i… enter

 to check · 4                finished, nobody has checked it
   Cut every list on the task surface over to… 4 files · 28m
   Read what the four nearest competitors charge          7h
   Take the fortnight's spend apart by model     1 file · 1d
   Write the page about reading a task, and e… 17 files · 1d
   Seventeen sections, each under two… 1 accept  2 not right
   1 older · tasks

The one abstraction

homePanelGroup — a run of rows at the FOOT of a panel's list, drawn under a dim line of
its own, which folds before the panel gives up a row above it. It is the panel's own
shape said one level down, so the squeeze needed no second rule: the group's rows are
last, the ordinary bottom-up cut spends them first, and when none is left the panel's own
fold reads 4 to check · 1 older · tasks instead of 4 more. shrink() got simpler as a
result. Any panel can take one.

homeCell.grows is the second: a row one line tall whose panel reserves the line it grows
into, so the column keeps its shape whichever row the cursor stands on — no relayout on an
arrow key.

What it deleted

needsUncheckedWord, the amber mark on a landing, needsItem.answers and the
draw-the-chips-on-the-first-row flag, and the old homeGridAnswer walk. Drawing and
routing now call ONE function (homeAnswerAt), so the chip on the screen and the key a
person presses cannot be two different rows.

Two defects the tmux drive found

• A live conversation waiting on nothing but its own landing was drawn twice.
  Agent.waitingOnPerson reads a pending decision last and has no question object to write
  for it, so such a session says waiting on you · your call on <title> with
  PresenceQuestion zero — and that was drawn as a question above the to check row for
  the same work. The landing's row is the one that survives; it has the work's own name, its
  files and its answers.
• a/n cannot be answer keys on home. The landing keys are task-states' own letter
  for letter everywhere else, but home's box promises "type to search or start something
  new" and a bare letter there always types. So the WORDS stay the task's own
  (session.TaskAsk) and the KEY is the drawn digit — the one printable exception home
  already makes — mapped back to LandingYesKey/LandingNoKey before the answer leaves
  the surface. Verified on disk:
  {"kind":"landing","id":1,"key":"a","from":"home","decidedBy":"person"}.

Also

• since you left drops a landing to check is showing, and takes it back when it is
  answered or ages out.
• The pulse's N want you is now the sum of both groups, through the panel's own
  needsCallOf/needsAged rather than a second test.
• The demo home grew four more unchecked landings across three projects, so the fixture
  draws a group rather than a group of one.
• Manual: home.md (needs you is the questions alone, a new to check section),
  keys.md, places.md; docs/design/home-mission-control/DESIGN.md laws 5, 7 and 8.

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